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uri: klappy://writings/software-virtues-revisited
title: "Software Virtues, Revisited — What I Wrote in 2018, What I Stand By, and What I Owed the Reader"
subtitle: "What I Wrote in 2018, What I Stand By, and What I Owed the Reader"
author: "Klappy"
type: essay
public: true
audience: public
exposure: published
exposure: public
tier: 3
voice: klappy
voice: first_person
stability: stable
tags: ["writings", "essay", "software-virtues", "quality-attributes", "tradeoffs", "ilities", "tension-matrix", "revisit"]
tags:
- writings
- essay
- software-virtues
- quality-attributes
- tradeoffs
- ilities
- tension-matrix
- revisit
epoch: E0008.4
date: 2026-05-10

# Discovery
hook: "Eight years later, a partner asked me which '-ilities' actually trade off against which. I sent him the article and told him I still stand by it — then realized it never built the full map."
description: "Eight years ago I wrote about ten software virtues and the tensions among them. A partner asked today which actually trade off against which, in which use cases — and I realized the article I'd been recommending for a decade had only listed tensions per-virtue and never assembled the full map. So I built it, and then realized the map was a worked example of something larger: a constraints survey for new work with agents."
slug: software-virtues-revisited

# Social graph
og_title: "Software Virtues, Revisited"
og_description: "Eight years later, a partner asked me which '-ilities' actually trade off against which. I sent him the article and told him I still stand by it — then realized it never built the full map."
og_type: article
twitter_card: summary_large_image
twitter_title: "Software Virtues, Revisited"
twitter_description: "Eight years later, a partner asked me which '-ilities' actually trade off against which. I sent him the article and told him I still stand by it — then realized it never built the full map."

# Relationships
derives_from: "https://medium.com/@klappy/what-are-software-virtues-and-how-to-prioritize-them-f0b583741afe (2018-09-09 — original article), canon/observations/quality-attribute-tension-matrix.md, canon/principles/quality-attributes-are-in-tension.md, canon/definitions/software-virtues-vocabulary.md, odd/maturity.md"
complements: "writings/agentic-software-development.md"
status: active
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