~/tags $ grep -r "Mythical Man-Month" ./posts → 3
Tagged #mythical man-month
2026-09-04 · 16m
The new software tar pit and how AI made it stickier
Brooks priced a program at one and a programming systems product at nine. AI cut the price of the one. The other eight are still there, and they are harder to see.
2026-09-23 · 16m
Ten subagents in an hour is 1975 asking for ten developers in a month
Splitting a stuck task across ten subagents feels like a new idea. It is the same equation Brooks took apart in 1975, and the bill now arrives as verification.
2026-08-24 · 9m
The Mythical Man-Month, is this outdated in the age of AI?
Brooks's law was supposed to die in the age of AI. After six months of daily work alongside agents, I went back to the book. It has not aged at all.