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For reference (as per Wikipedia):

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

Imagine interpreting that as advice on how you should try to design things, lol.

Tbf, I think most of the post is just typical LinkedIn fluff, but I didn't want to take the poor fellow out of context.

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

“fuck you, build it the way we feel it should be built”

Not really sufficient on its own, you have to fit the organisation and communication structure to the code. That even applies to small teams, even to having a single coding partner, heck it even applies to a solo project you have to get the communication between your idiot and genius self right.