Of course, but AV parallelization is limited by the fact that you're all working on a single, tightly-interconnected system. The reality is somewhere in between

Of course, but AV parallelization is limited by the fact that you're all working on a single, tightly-interconnected system. The reality is somewhere in between "do more (fungible, separable) total work" and "dump engineers into a single project". Onboarding costs are substantial for a fast-growing AV company.