[MadxX79]

Brook's law anno 2026:

"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later -- unless that manpower is AI, then you're golden!"

[steveklabnik]

I know you're being sarcastic, but this is what OpenAI has said:

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

> This translates to an average throughput of 3.5 PRs per engineer per day, and surprisingly the throughput has increased as the team has grown to now seven engineers.

We will see if this continues to scale up!

[smikhanov]

That law (formulated in the 70s, I’ll remind the reader) wasn’t true for at least couple decades now.

[medi8r]

Why not? What changed? It seems like a human factors thing. New people have to get up to speed. Doers become trainers.