Second-System-Effect

LLM can lead to the Second-System Effect The classic Second-System Effect. Concept was articulated by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month (1975): Fred Brooks: The second system a designer builds is the most dangerous. What it means First system → constrained, pragmatic, minimal. Second system → “now we know better” → feature accumulation → abstraction layers → generalization → complexity explosion. The image captures that perfectly: Left: pipeline, bounded, coherent. Right: graph-theory nightmare. LLMs are complex and resource-heavy. Should that be avoided from the start? Let’s analyze precisely. ...