a16z's Martin Casado: AI turns engineering problems into capital problems, breaking the Mythical Man-Month
a16z · x · 2026-11-11
a16z partner Martin Casado argues AI's biggest disruption is turning tech's perennial engineering bottleneck into a capital problem. Hiring more engineers never scaled output—the reason The Mythical Man-Month exists—but a 20-person team today can productively deploy a billion dollars using AI, a shift he calls "industrial-revolution-level."
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