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SoftTalkeryesterday at 4:14 PM1 replyview on HN

At least in software, 100x headcount does not get you 100x productivity, due to communication complexity (see Brooks).


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asdffyesterday at 7:45 PM

Maybe not a linear relationship, but there is a relationship, which begets the question: If the market had available space with which for you to scale from 10x-100x, why aren't you or competitors already taking advantage? The answer is that there is no free 100x scaling on the table in all likelihood. If everyone's business had 100x in front of them thanks to AI we'd need the demand of an earth of 800 billion people on it to generate that.