First-Principles Design / Reuse of Established Patterns
Kind: tension
Record: tension:first-principles-design-reuse-of-established-patterns
Canonical: Schema
"first-principles-design" (evolution-principles layer) is traded against "Reuse of Established Patterns" (evolution-principles layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Reuse of Established Patterns" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Greenfield Development / Legacy Constraints and before Reference Architecture / Team Autonomy.