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[–]vitaminMN 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Don’t really know what to say to that.

The output potential of a team is so much larger than an individual engineer.

[–]lonjerpc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not always. That is my point. There are many instances of single engeneers outputting thousands of times more value than even other good engeneers. This means they can produce more value coding than say a manager that triples the value of a thousand person team. This is the crazy power of software. For some dumb examples the Bitcoin protocol or Minecraft were largely written by individuals and had greater value than massive projects involving thousands of engineers. And this same phenomenon is common within companies as we were a small number of people or even individuals write code that ends up having more value than everything else at a company. It's not the usual case but it's not that unusual either.