> They're also rely on strict linting, which in my experience, a well gelled well led team doesn't need. This may be true of a _small_ well gelled well led tea

> They're also rely on strict linting, which in my experience, a well gelled well led team doesn't need. This may be true of a _small_ well gelled well led team. But I work at Airbnb and we're too big to rely on just gelling with each other and having good leadership for consistency anymore. In my experience when you have hundreds of developers it ends up being more cost-effective to decide on some style rules and then have a linter check them and remind people when they accidentally stray. It also helps keep code reviews focused on content, not style. (This used to be a problem at Airbnb but as far as I can tell is mostly not anymore, because of linting.)