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In the previous post, we mapped the core laws governing engineering teams: Conway, Brooks, Parkinson, Dunbar, Goodhart, and Ringelmann. Each one describes a force that operates on communication structures, coordination overhead, and cognitive limits.

Now introduce AI agents — systems that write code, execute tasks, and produce artefacts autonomously, at a pace no human engineer matches. Do the laws still hold?

Yes. But they don't hold in the same places.