What ThePrimeagen thinks about team size

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Michael Paulson, known online as ThePrimeagen, a programmer who spent ten years at Netflix and now streams and teaches programming full time on Twitch and YouTube.

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1. 22 Mar 2025

   Our readingIn a big company there is no such thing as a small feature, because every little thing eventually becomes its own team.

   Their wordsAnd that's just the problem of big companies is that eventually every little thing has to become its own team. And so even small... There's no such thing as a small feature.

   ↗ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461youtube.com 11th of 31 in this recording