What Nelson Elhage thinks about team size
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
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1 dated position, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Nelson Elhage has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingPer-engineer productivity inevitably declines somewhat as an organization and its codebase grow
Their wordsIt is almost inevitable that per-engineer productivity drops to some extent as an organization and codebase grows, even though it's also nearly-impossible to quantify that effect.
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