Inventive principle

33. homogeneity

Make interacting elements use the same or closely compatible representation, protocol, abstraction, runtime, or substrate to reduce conversion and mismatch costs.

For software development and coding agents

Software adaptation: use this heuristic to formulate a concrete implementation hypothesis for your stated contradiction, then validate it with independent checks. Applicability depends on the evidence; this entry is not an automatic recommendation.

Software-adapted heuristic · Catalog triz-software-2. Source and methodology →

TRIZit’s classification is probabilistic. Saved output is a strategy handoff for manager review and independent implementation checks.