Press Space to continue
Press Space to continue
Fred Brooks proved in 1975 that adding people to a software project makes it slower. It took 51 years and AI coding tools before companies started acting on it. The math from The Mythical Man-Month still holds. Communication channels grow as n(n-1)/2. A team of 10 manages 45 channels. A team of 100 manages 4,950. Every new hire adds output linearly and coordination cost quadratically. For five decades every exec read that book, nodded, and kept hiring anyway. Headcount was the currency of…
Federico Simionato@fedesimio17h ago
Today we’re laying off a large part of the Airtable team. This is not a reflection of their work but a reflection of our deep belief that small teams ship more and better. For Airtable, better is about to look like: - A new Core team shipping your top requests monthly (already 30+ shipped in 3 weeks) - Upgraded Omni, Airtable Canvas, a stronger MCP, and BYO agents, coming soon - New Performance and Infra teams focusing on speeding up bases and increasing limits on records, fields, and syncs To everyone leaving: thank you. If you’re hiring, these are excellent people and worth a call.