[drewcoo]

> But what do we get if we take Conway’s law, and flip it on its head? What happens if we design a codebase first, then base the organizational structure around it?

Given that humans have agency and codebases do not, we eventually end up with Conway's Law in effect again as humans start to shape everything around themselves.

I think the author has problems understanding causation.

Take a baseball batter. Pitch to the batter a bunch of times, leaving all the balls to rest wherever they land. If we later move all the balls farther away, we don't expect the batter to hit farther.

[Yasuraka]

>If we later move all the balls farther away, we don't expect the batter to hit farther.

I was about to mention the psychological barrier phenomena according to which, once a record is broken, scores of athletes move past it in short time, to say that this might actually be an example where it could have an impact if the batter is aware.

But then I realized that I never questioned this idea and was just believing something I heard at some point many years ago. Turns out, it's just another piece of "pop sci" trivia, aka misconstrued or wrong: https://www.scienceofrunning.com/2017/05/the-roger-bannister...