[xpe]

This metaphor doesn't work for me. Source code is not analogous to organizational behavior.

Not to mention it gives readers confused context about the link, which is about GitLab layoffs.

[nfw2]

It's not a metaphor...it's a joke

[xpe]

Step 1: throw some words from your keyboard into a comment box and claim it was humor. Step 2: downvote people that don't laugh. Step 3: someday realize that humor and metaphor are not mutually exclusive.

[proc0]

Or maybe a prediction.

[brookst]

git doesn't have branch prediction

[fragmede]

maybe with colab v3 or so.

[oneplane]

gpt-git might have branch prediction, but it might also have side-channel attacks

[60secs]

make sure your git branch is set to protected

[pc86]

Nope, just a joke.

[roboben]

xpe is taking everything 100% serious here.

[xpe]

I have a sense of humor; the above was meh

P.S. and that attempt at humor definitely involved metaphor

[mcast]

Their post sounds like a ChatGPT response

[drewcoo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law

[xpe]

> Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. — Melvin E. Conway (via Wikipedia)

> The law is based on the reasoning that in order for a product to function, the authors and designers of its component parts must communicate with each other in order to ensure compatibility between the components. Therefore, the technical structure of a system will reflect the social boundaries of the organizations that produced it, across which communication is more difficult. In colloquial terms, it means complex products end up "shaped like" the organizational structure they are designed in or designed for. The law is applied primarily in the field of software architecture, though Conway directed it more broadly and its assumptions and conclusions apply to most technical fields.

Conway's Law does not apply (doesn't say one thing or another) regarding the connection source code and layoffs.