Lean Teams, AI Agents: How Software Gets Built Without a Full Team (opens in new tab)

The conversation around software teams and AI usually gets stuck on one question: will AI replace developers? That's the wrong question, and it distracts from a more useful one: why are software teams actually getting smaller, and what does that change about how the work gets done? The short answer: it's not about replacing people. It's about finally addressing a coordination problem that's been baked into large engineering teams for as long as they've existed. The problem: Coordination, not ...