The exact same architectural pathology exists in enterprise visual systems.
We correctly diagnose 'core banking' as an unmaintainable big ball of mud because it lacks rigid, compile-time constraints. Yet, we somehow tolerate the exact same entropy in how B2B enterprises build their digital interfaces and brand assets.
When a design system relies on post-facto human validation rather than discrete mathematical parsing (Parse, don't validate), you don't get a scalable system—you just accumulate visual technical debt. The root cause of decay, whether in a banking backend or a brand's data topology, isn't age. It's the absence of absolute axioms from day one.
AxiomLab•1h ago
We correctly diagnose 'core banking' as an unmaintainable big ball of mud because it lacks rigid, compile-time constraints. Yet, we somehow tolerate the exact same entropy in how B2B enterprises build their digital interfaces and brand assets.
When a design system relies on post-facto human validation rather than discrete mathematical parsing (Parse, don't validate), you don't get a scalable system—you just accumulate visual technical debt. The root cause of decay, whether in a banking backend or a brand's data topology, isn't age. It's the absence of absolute axioms from day one.