There is a fundamental misunderstanding of physics at the heart of the modern software industry.

For the last decade, we have treated software engineering like a Victorian assembly line: add more workers to the factory floor, get more widgets out the door. We masked operational friction with cheap capital, answering every missed deadline and stalled roadmap with a single, reflexive command: hire more developers.

This enterprise framework has been permanently moved to the core curriculum. Read the full guide here: https://www.richardewing.io/blog/b2b-saas-coordination-tax-saas-engineering-margins

Richard Ewing The Product Economist | Founder, Exogram.ai, Richardewing.io

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