Extreme Programming (XP)

Biological Parallel

Stress-induced mutagenesis accelerates mutation rates when organisms face environmental crisis, rapidly sampling genetic variations to find solutions. XP amplifies feedback intensity and iteration frequency to the extreme—like bacteria upregulating DNA polymerase error rates under starvation stress. When normal variation rates are too slow for environmental change, organisms don't relax standards; they deliberately increase mutation rates and selection pressure simultaneously to accelerate adaptation.