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MadxX79yesterday at 2:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

Brook's law anno 2026:

"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later -- unless that manpower is AI, then you're golden!"


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steveklabnikyesterday at 7:56 PM

I know you're being sarcastic, but this is what OpenAI has said:

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

> This translates to an average throughput of 3.5 PRs per engineer per day, and surprisingly the throughput has increased as the team has grown to now seven engineers.

We will see if this continues to scale up!

smikhanovyesterday at 2:26 PM

That law (formulated in the 70s, I’ll remind the reader) wasn’t true for at least couple decades now.

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