Pattern

Boosting engine

You might say: reinforcing loop, vicious circle, snowball

A loop in which each change pushes further in the same direction, so it speeds up.

Ask

What feeds itself here, and what will stop it?

Sources

1. UK Government Office for Science, “An introductory systems thinking toolkit for civil servants”, Tool 9, feedback loopsReinforcing feedback loops are amplifying and self-propagating, whether as a vicious or virtuous circle

Use it on your project

teardown-apply: hold "Boosting engine" (pattern-boosting-engine) from the teardown at https://teardownatlas.com/fiction-writing/ against my project

Paste it into a coding agent that has the teardown skills.

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