A pattern I have noticed is you get way better results if you just have one skilled senior engineer coding everything with AI vs a lot of people.

Having large teams in the age of AI is pointless. It slows things down and spreads accountability too thin.

When you have one good engineer doing many things, a lot of stuff lives in their head and they know what to look for in their own PRs. Also, people tend to like their own AI slop, but not others. So overall you will have at least an engineer who is satisfied with the codebase vs a lot of people who either have some gripe about something someone else did, or just don’t care at all.

That means you have to put way more trust in a single individual, but if it’s the right individual you propel the organization further ahead than a team of mediocre engineers or senior engineers limited in what they can accomplish.