Pruning: The Key to Solving Complex Problems

Solving complex problems isn't about being smart, it's about being lazy and eliminating

the impossible immediately. This is the secret behind how AI solves things like Sudoku or scheduling the

Hubble Telescope without crashing. It’s called a Constraint Satisfaction Problem. Instead of blindly

guessing every possible move, the AI looks at the rules first. If a map region

is red, the neighbor can’t be red. Boom, you just deleted

half the wrong answers. It’s called pruning. By defining variables and constraints, you stop searching

for needles in haystacks and just burn the hay. Structure beats brute force every

single time.