Conway's Law and Programming Languages

I was intrigued by Casey's comments on Conway's Law, and reading the original paper, Conway was mapping the relationship between information flow among designers and system structure. The paper argues that interfaces (APIs, documentation, etc.) form where communication has to cross boundaries between humans or teams, so taken as a whole, interfaces in a program mirror the communication graph among the programmers, and as a consequence, products reflect the org chart. When I try to apply the same model to agents, I don't think it maps cleanly even if the underlying analysis is sound, because agents don't operate the same way humans do. Agents communicate at a much higher speed than humans, but have no project-specific shared prior with the user, because while human memory accumulates across time, an agent's context window is a fixed space with a token budget that resets each session. Once training is completed, agents can only learn about their environment through tool calls and what's loaded into the context window.

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