Should AGI labs have a reverse Conway's Law — design the org from the artifact?
akbirthko · x · 2026-11-04
akbirthko floats an idea: for firms building general-purpose machine intelligence, there should be a "reverse Conway's Law" — to understand the shape of the artifact, start from the left (illustrated with XKCD's classic "Fields Arranged by Purity" comic, where every field collapses into applied math).
Classic Conway's Law says system designs mirror org communication structures; this inversion asks a deeper question: when the artifact is general intelligence, should the organization be designed from itself, or from the shape of what it creates? A lightweight but discussion-worthy take.
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