"No, it's less effort than that"

1975: Fred Brook's wrote[1]:

“The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”

Can't get better than this

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

I don't know, I've seen some 10x women do it in seven months, though the deliverable did suffer.

But more and more women are working faster. Later preterm rates are on the rise for quite some time.

"The late preterm singleton rate rose at an average annual rate of 2% each year from 2014 to 2019 (from 5.67% to 6.32%). The decline in the late preterm rate between 2019 and 2020 (6.32% to 6.30%) was not significant."

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db430.pdf

I have even smart managers look me in the eye and say things like "can we parallelize parts of this? let's map out the dependencies."

EVERY EXTRA PERSON YOU ADD MAKES IT TAKE LONGER. The fastest delivery is a solo developer that you get out of their f**ing way and let them work.

If you want to go fast, go alone.

If you want to go far, go with people.