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Conway's Law and Coding Assistants


’s law and coding assistants In the coming years, we’re likely to see coding assistants like Copilot become more and more autonomous. Instead of completing your code, the new systems will write new functions given a specification.

Progress is reported to middle-management (i.e. directories) who ensure cohesion, and in turn communicate higher-level goals to the coding assistants. Responsibilities for the high-level goal are allocated to subteams: The programmer defines the subtasks as different directories. A low-bandwidth communication method between teams: Code interfaces are sparsely connected between directories (assuming a well decoupled codebase).

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