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The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI

A new essay revisits Fred Brooks' classic 1975 software engineering text 'The Mythical Man-Month' and asks whether its famous lessons about adding manpower to late projects still hold as AI coding tools change how software teams work. It is drawing discussion among developers debating whether AI assistants reduce or worsen the coordination costs Brooks described.

Why now: Developers are actively debating whether classic software management wisdom applies to AI-assisted programming.

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