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Last discussed Sep 24, 2026
Dan Shipper's team-sizing heuristic for AI-era labs teams: one or two people maximum, in contrast to the traditional two-pizza team of 8-10.
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Dan Shipper · Sep 24, 2026
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Used for: Structuring an AI labs team to maximize speed and minimize coordination overhead
Praised: Allows extremely fast progress; avoids coordination overhead and differing vi...
vs: Contrasted with the two-pizza team (8-10 people) advocated by Jeff Bezos
"In the AI age, I call it a two-slice team. You want one or two people max. You can get so far, so fast with one or two people that anything more, there's a lot of coordination overhead and differing visions, and it just doesn't work."
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