The Minimalism Paradox: AI's Infinite Recursion Problem

This explores a critical failure mode in autonomous software development systems where recursive task decomposition spirals into infinite loops on empty repositories. When an AI system attempts to scaffold a project from scratch, its optimization for 'minimal' tasks creates a paradox: each subtask remains too complex to execute independently, triggering endless subdivision without progress. This reveals a fundamental constraint in AI-powered automation that developers must grasp before deploying autonomous systems at scale.