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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by pieterr on Sunday January 29, 2023 @09:40AM (#34568510)
That is adding people to a project means that you have to add even more people to deal with the management complexity.

Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month (1975)

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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by Lio on Sunday January 29, 2023 @10:42AM (#34569068)
Yep that's exactly what I had in mind. It's like a fundamental law of project management that for some reason still gets ignored a lot today.
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