Engineering feels like a team—until it doesn’t.
Early on, coordination is easy. People share context. Decisions happen quickly. At 20 engineers, this works. At 200, it breaks. Not because the people changed. Because the system did.
At some point, engineering stops behaving like a team. It becomes infrastructure for the business.
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