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by AndrewKemendo 817 days ago
Conway’s law does not define a maximum size of a system.

It simply defines that the systems as measured reflect the structure that created them.

If you look at the software ecosystem as a whole, it is increasingly indivisible without the underlying structure, because interface types have been totally monopolized - you need a create a client-server REST/LAMP service with stateless agents consuming services

That is to say if you wanted to build a technical service, but that does not comply with existing trends in engineering then you just don’t exist

Technology is social it’s not simply mechanical

Socially, we don’t have holism as a goal. Cybernetics is socialism according to academia and increasing specialization means that nobody can fully understand the whole thing.

Because nobody can understand the whole thing there are opportunities for fragility, and basically stuff to break catastrophically with nobody knowing how to fix it.

I anticipate the next couple decades look like a lot of broken stuff that people rely on, that increasingly nobody knows how to fix