The Power of Deliberate Inefficiency
True elegance in code comes not from optimising every operation, but from recognising when to sacrifice efficiency for clarity. Recomputing an entire state from scratch—rather than tracking incremental changes—may seem wasteful at first glance. Yet this approach often yields systems that are simpler to understand, easier to debug, and more robust against edge cases.
The purest solution abandons the complexity of state management altogether. By treating each moment as independent, requiring only inputs to determine outputs, we free ourselves from the cognitive burden of tracking how we arrived at our current position. This deliberate inefficiency creates a paradox: seemingly wasteful calculations produce systems that waste less of our most precious resource—human understanding.