Conway's Law
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Ries: Human alignment, not technical alignment, is AI's top unsolved problem
“This is the number one unsolved problem in AI. It's not the tech, we're making great progress on the technical alignment problem, but we haven't made jack progress on the human alignment problem, which is that we've known since the development of Conway's laws…”
Randle: Conway's Law forces VC funds to invest based on fund size
“I'm a big believer in Conway's law and Conway's law is this programming concept that when it's super dumbed down for people like us, Harry says you ship your org. Yeah. You ship your org chart or the product you ship looks like your organizational structure. I…”
Bornstein: System prompts mirror company organizational structures like Conway's Law
“My biggest takeaway from this is the system prompt often reflects the organization it came from. Like it's some new form of Conway's law. You know, Conway's law is this thing that you kind of ship your org structure as a software company. Like I think as an AI…”
Randle: Conway's Law forces VC firms to invest their org chart
“Conway's law exists for venture firms for sure, which means that you like, you invest your org chart. And it's like very hard to you know, have an investment strategy or a portfolio construction strategy. That doesn't match the size and kind of scope of your t…”