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Comment by cognitiveinline

12 hours ago

Good analysis. Infact, there's collaboration cost in AI when it comes to quality, but a much smaller team can put out same quality things in a shorter time. As such it's same quality for cheaper, for sure.

Can they?

What products are you talking about? Because I see smaller teams or one man bands putting out low quality prototypes, but not teams of 10 delivering a years work in a sprint.

  • I'm seeing that a tech lead is preferring to work with 1 other engineer on a large project, and they're thinking through and presenting the architecture to others. But in prior time, this project would have been the lead + 2 seniors + 4 entry to mid level engineers to do it.

    Everyone else in the team is now just aware of what's happening, and understand the architecture from the meeting to review / discuss it. But implementation and rollout is fast and just by the 2 of them.

    The lead told me maintaining the quality was so much easier for the 2 of them with the right AGENTS.md lines, as he didn't have to spend time fixing guiding many people to do the right thing in PR reviews.

    • But does what they present work for production or they present a demo and leave it to someone else to figure out how to make it work for real?

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