Law 39 · Architecture & Operations
Your Architecture Mirrors Your Org Chart
You ship a system shaped like your teams, so design the teams first.
The principle
Any system's structure ends up mirroring the communication structure of the organization that built it. For AI, that means if three teams each own a model, you'll get three agents and a brittle seam between them, whether or not the problem wanted to be split that way. The agent boundaries you ship will trace your team boundaries unless you fight it on purpose.
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