Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, has not manually written a single line of code since November 2024. He ships 20 to 30 pull requests per day by running five parallel Claude instances on separate branches. The median engineer ships 3 PRs per week. That is a 30x productivity gap, not a rounding error.
The gap compounds at the company level. Anthropic generates roughly $5 million in revenue per employee. Cursor generates $3.3 million. Traditional SaaS tops out at $200,000 to $300,000. The difference is not talent density. It is coordination overhead, quantified by Metcalfe's Law: every new hire adds n-1 new communication channels. A 150-person org carries 11,175 potential channels. A 30-person team producing equivalent output carries 435. That is a 96% reduction in coordination drag.
The original piece is worth reading for the specific arithmetic on org structure and the question it lands on: the unit of management is shifting from headcount to agent count. How many AI agents can one human effectively orchestrate? That answer will determine what a competitive team looks like in two years.
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