@ryanlpeterman: The only unbreakable law in software engineering ⠀ Casey Muratori (Video Game Dev & Creator): What is the only unbreakable law in software engineering? The only thing I've seen that feels like a real law to me is the thing I cover in this lecture, which is Conway's law. ⠀ And it is that if you would like to organize a series, like a set of people to work on something, or in the modern parlance, let's say agents, if you need to partition a problem into a set of workers in this way where the communication between those workers is slower than their own internal computation ability, when you start to tackle a problem, in order to get the benefits of that parallelization, you will have to make decisions about who is working on what. ⠀ Once you've made that decision, you have now locked in the fact that that the iteration on the design will be slower across that boundary than it is interior to either of the two parts. One way the rule is pithily stated is products look like the org chart, right? ⠀ But that's not exactly what it says. But that's a downstream consequence and boy do you ever see it in the real world. ⠀ For the full conversation, you can search Casey Muratori on my YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts (link in bio)

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Thursday 17 September 2026 13:06:55 GMT