wirths-law SKILL.md skillA
wirths-law from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/wirths-law@git:20260530.3e17152Pins git:20260530.3e17152 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer
- Path
wirths-law/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260530.3e17152, committed May 30, 2026
- Size
- 4,470 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Apply Wirth's Law when discussing software performance, application bloat, why software feels slower despite hardware improvements, resource usage in modern applications, or the relationship between software quality and hardware progress. Trigger on phrases like "why is this app so slow?", "software is getting bloat-ier", "we can just rely on hardware to compensate", "modern apps use too much RAM", or any discussion about the growing resource demands of software relative to hardware capability…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Wirth's Law > "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." > — Niklaus Wirth, 1995 ## The core idea Moore's Law gives hardware a doubling of capability roughly every two years. Wirth's Law observes a counteracting trend: software grows in size, complexity, and resource consumption at a rate that outpaces — or at least keeps pace with — hardware improvements. The result: users often don't experience the performance gains that Moore's Law would suggest they should. A more colorful formulation is "Andy and Bill's Law" (from the industry): "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away" — referring to Intel's Andy Grove and Microsoft's Bill Gates. Every gain in hardware capability gets absorbed by software demanding more. ## Why software grows slower **Abstraction layers accumulate.** Modern applications run on layer after layer of abstraction: operating system, runtime, virtual machine, framework, library, application. Each layer has overhead. The early app that ran directly on hardware is now wrapped in multiple interpreters and runtimes. …
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How to install
mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/wirths-law@sha256:91cfde08fe59f8d0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260530.3e17152, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 30, 2026.
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Source
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_habp2fidenvofs3p GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/wirths-law GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/91cfde08fe59f8d076e52a7c1d82b7ea44bd854d4634cd3269aea0e85d442995
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