In Teams, Individual Productivity Is A Harmful Illusion

Jason Gorman:

The hardest lesson I had to learn as a software developer in the early part of my career was that what felt “productive” to me locally – uninterrupted time, code getting created fast etc – often turned out to be a bad sign for overall team outcomes.

It’s as if the more time you spend being alone, creating solutions alone, and building things alone, the further you drift from your teammates.

there is no individual productivity in software development. There is only the team.

What’s that old proverb? “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

Well now it’s: If you want to go fast, build with AI. If you want to go far, build with a team (of people, not agents, duh).