mji

> A decade ago, it was a real flex in San Francisco to say you worked at Meta, Google, Apple, Tesla ... That’s not what it feels like anymore.

Sure but that's just because there are now different companies (AI labs) on this list instead

> At very large software companies, programming ability, technical expertise, and raw resources are not the limiting factors. Coordination is.

If coordination is your limiting factor I'd argue that it shouldn't be, and you're not investing enough in removing it as a factor. Companies can use various tools to do this, for example:

* Defining directly responsible individuals / single-threaded leaders so that every choice doesn't involve massive coordination

* Putting people who work together in the office sitting next to each other most days of the week

* Or, for remote work, having a strong culture of async communication that is visible to the broader group by default, for example with Slack

Until recently?

Now it's 20x at the AI labs instead of 5x at FAANG.