I think you have to swim upstream in this, which is to say resist the urge to write systems with complex emergent behavior in the first place. They’re thrilling to write, but even you will get tired of your bullshit at some point and lose interest (often before you figure out why you don’t like working on the code).

I am watching a coworker begin to discover this right now. He’s one of the last standing of a cohort of overconfident loudmouths. It’s been... interesting. No self-awareness so far yet though.