hariprasadr

Re:Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people? on Sunday March 15, 2026 @12:04PM (#47388724)

So, documentation is the solution? But do people have time to document everything?

Ask HN: Is documentation a solved problem or are we all just pretending?

Posted by hariprasadr on Sunday March 15, 2026 @07:18AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Every company I've worked at has a Confluence or Notion that's 60% outdated. Decisions happen in Slack threads and Zoom calls and never make it anywhere permanent. New people onboard into a fiction. We have AI that can write code, generate images, and pass the bar exam. But somehow "keep a document up to date" is still unsolved. Am I wrong? Has anyone actually cracked this?

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Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?

Posted by hariprasadr on Sunday March 15, 2026 @07:16AM
from the ask-hn dept.

We're at ~15 people and things that used to "just work" are starting to crack. Decisions that everyone used to know about are getting lost. New hires take forever to ramp up. Different teams are building on different assumptions. For those who've been through this stage, what actually broke first? And what did you do about it?

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