What Steve Yegge thinks about team size
Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google, wrote the Stevey's Blog Rants essays, and co-authored the book Vibe Coding with Gene Kim.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Steve Yegge has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingGroups of two to thirty people will produce output that rivals what the big companies produce.
Their wordsit'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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