I've been reading the (perennially-recommended) Mythical Man Month with a friend, and this is something that gets touched on again and again. It's funny that fo

I've been reading the (perennially-recommended) Mythical Man Month with a friend, and this is something that gets touched on again and again. It's funny that for all the hilariously out-of-date components of those essay (development measured in compiler instructions written!), the inefficiency between a good architect and the number mean-regressed engineers beneath them is still a problem we struggle with half a century later.