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Definitely read Mythical Man-Month, which describes how adding more people may delay a project due to communication overhead ("why did the Tower of Babel fail?").

I was thinking this article would be an example of that, but actually while Mythical Man-Month mostly assumes that new team members would share the same visions and goals, this article takes a more adversarial view where new team members are assumed to come with their own agenda. I believe it's a form of cookie licking[1].

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091201-00/?p=15...




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