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> As companies add more engineers, the engineers become less productive

This is definitely true, but it's a necessary evil. If you want to build something small, you can do it with a super efficient tiger team. But if you want something huge, you need a massive inefficient team, even if each additional engineer is only 1/10th as efficient as the engineer in the tiger team.

This is explained, with real-life examples, in the classic Mythical Man Month.



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