> Hiring highly competent people to build software does not scale as well as hiring (many) more less competent people. This becomes less and less true as the s

> Hiring highly competent people to build software does not scale as well as hiring (many) more less competent people. This becomes less and less true as the size and complexity of the relevant software projects grows over time. If highly competent developers have anything going for them, it's their skill both in successfully coping with software complexity, and in preventing undue complexity/keeping it under check in the first place. See also The Mythical Man-Month, etc. etc.