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Blog post argues Brooks's Law still applies to AI coding agents

A developer's essay revisits Frederick Brooks's 1975 claim that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later, asking whether AI agents and LLMs change the equation. The author concludes the law hasn't disappeared but shifted: coordination overhead moves from managing people to managing agents, with humans still needed to define requirements, review output, and catch errors.