Dan Luu on Nostr: I often see people site Brooks's comments that development can't be sped up by adding ...

I often see people site Brooks's comments that development can't be sped up by adding people and, in fact, adding people actually slows things down but, in practice, I've generally seen adding people speed things up and, in a twenty year career across multiple engineering fields, I'm not sure I've ever seen an example of adding people slow things down.

Is my experience a total outlier here or is Brooks just mostly off base, as in https://www.patreon.com/posts/46629220 and https://danluu.com/essential-complexity/?