concealmintReddit's unpopular changes were inspired by Elon Musk's layoffs & cost-cutting
Margot RobbieWhen would tech companies realize that layoffs NEVER increase efficiency? The amount of work getting done is directly proportional to the amount of people at a company, because if a company can increase its work efficiency during normal operations it would have done so already.
The amount of work getting done is directly proportional to the amount of people at a company This is absolutely not true. This is one of the most well known writings on software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Again, we are talking about how cutting people during regular operation absolutely would not make the team more efficient, not adding people to a project last minute.
Late projects is just a theme used to convey the core ideas, as it is a common thinking/pitfall, but the reasoning of why late projects because later equally apply to initial software estimates.
The core idea is that software cannot be simple divided into "man months". That is, saying this software will take 80 manhours, and therefore 10 engineers can do it in 10 days, and a 80 engineers could do it in a day. The reasoning being 1. Software tasks are complex and not easily partitioned, and 2. Software projects require a lot of communication and the more people you have the communication channels needed greatly increase