The hive analogy is quite apt. Hives operate very differently now than they did in the 90s, but what this gets right is that the flickering light the coders ar

The hive analogy is quite apt. Hives operate very differently now than they did in the 90s, but what this gets right is that the flickering light the coders are attracted to is some kind of engineering grace, usually a thought leader or software guru or just a really nice person who is also incredibly hard working, deeply skilled in several domains including pure computer science, and a banger coder. Other engineers get jazzed in such a situation and the music flows. But 10 years seems to be about the max you can keep an original hive together.