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Most of the armchair folks on these threads haven't internalized Fred Brooks, especially regarding diminishing returns as the team size grows.

You as the server guy hiring a couple people to figure out how to squeeze another 10% value out of the system by hacking hardware is not fungible with hiring two more devs to try to avoid racking custom hardware. As if two devs could pull that feat off anyway.



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