Simplification Cascades

What problem does it solve?

This Skill addresses spiraling complexity, redundant implementations, and growing lists of special cases by helping you find a single, unifying insight that eliminates multiple components or rules. It transforms complex systems into elegant, maintainable solutions.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Pattern Recognition: Guides you to identify multiple implementations of similar concepts or excessive special case handling.
• Abstraction Extraction: Helps you find the underlying essence and extract a powerful, domain-independent abstraction.
• Cascade Measurement: Quantifies how many components or rules become unnecessary after applying the insight.
• Use Case: You have separate code for handling batch, real-time, and file data. This skill would help you realize "all inputs are streams," leading to a single stream processor and eliminating redundant code.

Quick Start

I'm dealing with a system where the same concept is implemented in 5 different ways. Guide me through the Simplification Cascades process to find a unifying abstraction.