AIKISS

Why This Matters

AIKISS is built on a simple observation:
LLMs struggle with large, interdependent codebases but excel with small, isolated components.
Humans, interestingly, are the same. Developers think more clearly, collaborate more easily, and maintain systems more reliably when those systems are composed of small, self-contained parts.

To leverage this shared strength, AIKISS breaks a system into units:

• each unit is a tiny program or service
• each has a clear, predictable input and output
• each contains a metadata header describing its purpose, mode, and interface
• each can be understood by both an LLM and a human developer in a single glance

This dual simplicity matters.
When every piece is small, explicit, and self-describing, both the LLM and the team working alongside it can reason about the system without holding the entire architecture in their head.
Code reviews are easier, onboarding is easier, debugging is easier, and changes are safer because the blast radius is tiny.

The philosophy comes directly from the Unix tradition (small focused tools), the microservice mindset (isolated responsibilities), and the classic KISS principle:
if you keep the parts small and simple, both machines and humans perform better.

The result:
Instead of training LLM agents, maintaining embeddings, or building custom models, you enforce architectural simplicity — and the LLM becomes surprisingly reliable because every piece fits the scale it can reason about.
Humans retain clarity, teams retain velocity, and the software stays transparent and maintainable for years to come.

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