Laws & Disorder

1. Laws & Disorder #1 — Conway's Law: Your Org Chart Is Your Real Architecture (and AI Is Redrawing Both)

   Your architecture ends up mirroring how your teams actually communicate, whether you designed it that way or not. Shape the teams on purpose, and watch how AI bends the coupling.

   13 Jul 2026 · 9 min read

2. Laws & Disorder #2 — Hyrum's Law: In the Age of Agents, Who Pays for a Broken API?

   Every observable behavior of an API is a contract someone depends on. AI agents that route around your breaking changes don't repeal that. They hide the cost.

   20 Jul 2026 · 9 min read

3. Laws & Disorder #3 — Tesler's Law: You Can't Delete Complexity, Only Choose Who Owns It

   You can't delete a system's inherent complexity, only choose who owns each piece. Managed services shrink what you manage; AI-built components shrink the total.

   27 Jul 2026 · 8 min read

4. Laws & Disorder #4 — Gall's Law: Great Systems Are Built From Small Bricks, Not Big Plans

   A complex system that works always evolved from a simple one, and it's assembled by composing small, well-scoped building blocks, never designed complex in one shot.

   3 Aug 2026 · 8 min read

5. Laws & Disorder #5 — Goodhart's Law: The Goal You Specify Is the Only One You Get

   The moment a measure becomes a target, people and AI agents optimize the number and quietly sacrifice every goal you didn't express. Balance your signals.

   10 Aug 2026 · 7 min read

6. Laws & Disorder #6 — Amara's Law: It's Not AGI — But the Value Is Already Real

   We overrate a technology in year one and underrate it by year five. Skip the AGI argument, place AI on the curve for your workload, and capture the value that's here.

   17 Aug 2026 · 6 min read

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