Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints

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• A group of fewer than four people is not a team: it behaves like a set of individuals, and a single departure knocks it back into maintenance. WLWill Larson14 Jul 2018team size
• A small team is not a compromise: it is the only size at which everyone is in the room for every decision, including the ones outside their discipline. JKJeff Kaplan11 Mar 2026team size
• A small team should start from an open-source generalist policy and fine-tune it on day one, rather than scale up its own specialist models first. CFChelsea Finn12 Aug 2026team size
• AI is currently having a decentralizing effect on industry and economic power rather than a centralizing one. BSBalaji Srinivasan3 Aug 2025team size
• AI's most interesting effect on organisations is probably not replacing jobs but separating impact from headcount. EVElena Verna10 Sept 2026team size

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