Fred Brooks wrote that book when they were programming IBM operating systems in assembly language.
Times have really, really changed - do not pay attention to the messages of this book unless for historical fun.
That book isn't, it's built from humility and a rare bright light in this god forsaken field.
Martin Fowler, the author of the blog, may be a bit different than that.
You should tell these AI companies and we could have AGI tomorrow if only they would throw a few thousand more men on the project.
Or perhaps today's men are coding agents? You can spin up as many agents as you care to, so asymptotically any project should be completable in zero time, regardless of complexity.