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Groups of two to thirty people will produce output that rivals what the big companies produce.

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  1. Steve Yegge

    Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google

    it's also enabling engineers who have seen the light and believe the curves are going to continue to go up to actually get together in groups of two and five and 10 and 20 and 30 people and start to do things that rival the output of these big companies that are tripping over themselves.

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