Software Construction

Construction is the software engineering activity of transforming a detailed design into executable code. It is neither mechanical translation nor purely creative: it involves continuous micro-design decisions, and every decision either adds or removes future complexity. The dominant construction quality defect is not logical error — it is unnecessary complexity: control flow branches that didn't need to exist, mutable state that didn't need to be shared, dependencies that didn't need to be direct.

Three ideas drive everything below: