The Limit Does Not Exist

"Ex-boyfriends are off-limits to friends. That's just, like, the rules of feminism." — Gretchen Wieners

In engineering, constraints are not inherently failures. They are often what make a system reliable. Rate limits prevent overload. Permissions determine access. Firewalls protect boundaries. Resource allocation prevents one process from consuming the entire system. What if we design smarter constraints, instead of eliminating them?