the difference in productivity between 0-1 mode vs. working within a big team at a large co seems universally true even pre-chatgpt. it's re…

the difference in productivity between 0-1 mode vs. working within a big team at a large co seems universally true even pre-chatgpt. it's really easy to be "productive" when (a) you're the only person driving decision making and implementation, and (b) you're still <20% effort in the 80-20 rule. it becomes a lot harder to contribute at the same pace, almost by design, when you share decision making within a larger team and have to optimize for quality AI in the hands of smart people probably makes this contrast even more apparent. it might also explain why the fastest moving products at large companies start with extremely small pockets of people (e.g. boris with claude code) There’s a phenomenon where talented individuals can achieve 10x their potential thanks to AI when working on their own thing But when the same individual is put into a large organization, they at most increase their potential by 20% (and sometimes it’s even decreased) This is why…

Source: Jerry Liu (X) | 2026-08-23

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