There was a time when «Good news» of modern management... fermented with yeast. Jeff Bezos, in his glory, as her ultimate sovereign Amazon, had launched the famous «rule of two pizzas» (Two-Pizza Rule).
The gradual collapse of traditional «rule of two pizzas» by Jeff Bezos who dictated that flexible working groups should not exceed ten people. The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has altered the data...
According to Bezos, small groups work more effectively, because their members communicate directly, avoid unnecessary meetings and decisions are made more quickly without complex hierarchies. In such groups, each individual has a clear role and a greater sense of responsibility, which enhances the commitment and quality of work. On the contrary, when groups grow too much, bureaucracy increases, coordination becomes difficult and innovation is often slowed down.
The idea of Jeff Bezos
The doctrine simple and... satisfying: if a working group cannot be satisfied with two family pizzas, then it is too old to produce work. In short, if you gather more than 10 people the thing reminds more of a flat assembly than a high-tech startup: a lot of noise, zero result.
Today, at the dawn of AI's pan-state, David Pan (CTO Field of Cursor and former Amazon executive) decided to do his own «re-indexing» declaring the end of their time «two pizzas» with a rather heretical statement: «The two pizzas are now many».
From open space to... individual box
What happened and all of a sudden, we dropped the pizza? Quite simply, he went into «kitchen» Artificial Intelligence.
Where you once needed an entire army of developers. —one writing back-end, one for front-end, one for debugging, one coordinating and three looking in a deep-covering style— Today AI tools make «lanza» In seconds. They produce code, find errors before they even appear and make the final development of the service playable.
The result? The productivity of the individual programmer has been ejected to levels... superheroes. A job that once wanted a whole department, now comes out of a developer who does «duo» with his chatbot.
The new menu
At Silicon Valley high-tech wells the conversation has already been lit, with management gurus proposing new, more... light menu:
- His team «a quarter of a pizza»
The Group of «three pieces
The «solo party»
Some still follow the rule. Spencer Raskov, CEO of the Match Group dating application company, told Business Insider that he was a fan of the rule.
There are also conflicting views on the size of the groups. Some managers prefer smaller groups, with fewer people taking on more jobs. Others prefer larger, horizontal groups, with fewer administrative levels.
