Decoupling from the Data POV: Stop-and-Start Boundaries, Independent Pointers, and Why Your Code (and AI) Need It

The Blind Spot in Modern Architecture Debates Ask five engineers what "decoupling" means, and you will get five abstract answers about SOLID principles, hexagonal layers, microservice boundaries, or dependency inversion interfaces. Almost nobody talks about decoupling from the point of view of the data itself. The Fundamental Law: If you decouple...