Every software project starts as a vast space of possible paths.
Each decision — a framework choice, an error strategy, an API design —
eliminates alternatives and narrows what remains. Entropy measures
how many meaningful choices are still open.
Each decision prunes the tree — entropy drops toward zero
The key question isn’t how much entropy a project has — it’s
when that entropy gets resolved. Decisions made at design time cost
tokens. Decisions deferred to runtime cost debugging, deployments, and outages.