When AI does the building, coordination overhead doesn't scale the engineering; it just slows it down. The key: strip process to what the team actually needs, then let AI fill the gap.
Inside the companies pulling ahead — Anthropic, Cursor, Cognition, Replit, and a small number of others — a different unit shape had emerged: five-to-ten people, direct CEO reporting, broad decision rights, hybrid roles, communication overhead at roughly one-tenth of a comparably-staffed conventional product unit.
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