"The smaller the step, the faster we can rotate. The more we rotate, the more engagement we feel as a group."

buff.ly/aBsgDYh #softwareengineering #developerexperience #productivity #ensembleworking #smaller #faster

"Small teams have coherence for free; the multiplier is uniformly positive there, which is why the loudest agent boosters tend to be small teams, and why they are mostly right about their own context."

buff.ly/NLntppg #ai #knowledgework #sharedunderstanding #ensembleworking

"AI business models from many smaller companies… are fundamentally flawed. They're busy selling cost reduction, which works for a while, but value creation happens in a network."

seths.blog/2026/05/ai-t... #ai #teaming #mobprogramming #pairprogramming #ensembleworking

"I did not see much more value of doing Pair Review when my team and I were doing Pair Programing as well."

https://newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/my-experience-implementing-software #softwareengineering #pairprogramming #codereview #ensembleworking