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neilwilson

So the Chief Programmer Team structure [0] is back in fashion is it.

But this time with agents.

Fred Brooks has never been more relevant.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_programmer_team

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Yes, I cite Brooks (and Harlan Mills, seemingly the original source of the idea) in the post!

I’m just glad I’m not the only one revisiting past structures that fell apart at the time because they involved humans.

Now we have human like automation, everything needs revisiting.

I'm kinda surprised this isn't more popular. I figured we'd go this way eventually as we single out 10x-ers, give them a highly competent crew, and save a lot of money over your most expensive code monkey wasting time attending meetings, filling out Jira tickets, and giving presentations to the customer. You pay them a shitload of money - shouldn't you get every dollar's worth?

Honestly, at every job I spend an unreasonable amount of time getting up to speed on things that are only tangentially related to my job (No, here we need you to check all the boxes in the Jira ticket, ensure it's linked to a zephyr ticket, and ensure it's linked to a git PR - we don't care about you adding attachments or comments!)

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