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Published by Nielsen Norman Group (T1.5 source). The original is at https://www.nngroup.com/articles/big-ball-of-mud-ai/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss-syndication.

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Nielsen Norman Group article arguing that low cost of AI-driven building tempts users to grow agentic systems piecemeal, producing fragile architectures no one fully understands — a modern 'big ball of mud.'

Names a recurring failure mode in agentic setups and gives a frame to audit sprawling systems before architectural debt hardens.

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