Angelina YangFounder and Host, TwoSetAI · AI builder for visibility and discoverability

More Agents Won't Fix Your Problem

8 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker explains that increasing headcount on a software engineering project does not lead to proportional speedups. Citing the classic insight from The Mythical Man‑Month (often summarized as "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later"), he highlights communication overhead as the primary bottleneck. The speaker warns against over‑complicating project topology with many agents and recommends keeping teams very small—typically two or three people working sequentially—or relying on a single, well‑designed model to maintain efficiency.

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Having more employees doesn't mean that you can scale linearly. Yeah, exactly. There's that— what is the book? One Month or something. It's about in software engineering, adding more people to a project does not necessarily speed up the project because overhead, the communication. Not always is it necessary to overly complicate and have that extreme topology. So some Sometimes if you are 2 or 3 just sequentially put together, just one good model.