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An analysis of how big-tech organizational structures impact software design. Is there an upper-bound to multi agentic problem-solving?

Cue three weeks ago, when I stumbled across a post by James Huckle about Conway’s Law: “Software and product architecture is destined to be a reflection of the organizational structure that created it”. The research also found that tasks with excessive complexity (such as that in SWE-bench) may exceed the model’s reasoning capabilities, leading to diminishing returns on performance gains. At the end of the day, if you aren’t hiring smarter employees or giving them better resources, their output won’t improve no matter how you organize them or how many people you have.

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