[perilunar]

> it seems improbable that 10,000 individual contributors running around doing whatever they think is best will ever result in engineering a new airplane, for example.

Individuals and small groups build new airplanes all the time. It's only large aeroplanes that require large teams of people.

[fernie]

> if you want to do BigCorp scale things

I think they were specifically talking about those large aeroplanes