I have to agree. The article quotes sound right and wonderful, but thinking about the environment in which I work, there’s not really a practical way to combine

I have to agree. The article quotes sound right and wonderful, but thinking about the environment in which I work, there’s not really a practical way to combine our efforts. We simply wouldn’t get things done in time. Division of labor ensures that changes can happen reliably and quickly. I’m ramping on an internal library right now and it’s taking a while to understand it’s complexities and history. I can’t imagine making quick changes to this without breaking a lot of stuff. It will take time to develop an intuition for predicting a change’s impact. Now multiply my ramp up time by every dev on my team every time they need to make an update. You can imagine productivity slows down and cognitive overhead rises.