To make another argument: Not to be a raging egalitarian, but it’s hard for 20% of workers to have enough business context as 100% of workers to be able to mai

To make another argument: Not to be a raging egalitarian, but it’s hard for 20% of workers to have enough business context as 100% of workers to be able to maintain the same level of productivity. Things like gathering requirements become massive bottlenecks to productivity. As people in this thread have stated elsewhere, there’s a HUGE last-mile problem in programming. For this reason having 20% of the programmers we have now might not be the ticket. We may even want to take some of these mediocre programmers we have now and have them do other duties like say, systems administration. In other words, it could be that hours spent programming decreases rather than the number of workers, to allow for higher communication bandwidth.