Working in a codebase with 10s of other developers seems... pretty normal? Not universal sure, but that has to be a decent percent of professional software work

Working in a codebase with 10s of other developers seems... pretty normal? Not universal sure, but that has to be a decent percent of professional software work. Once you get to even a half dozen people working in a code base I think consistency and clarity take on a significant role. In my own experience I've worked on repos with <10 other devs where I spent far more effort on consistency and mantainability than getting the thing to work.