Ask HN: Is Mythical Man-Month still relevant in todays AI Vibe Coding world?

Yes. Maybe more so. The most famous lesson from that book is that you can’t just add bodies to a team and expect proportionate increases in productivity. I think vibe coding means more people simply makes the unmaintainability increase proportionate to the number of added people.

It is. So much so that I quoted him and even included a photo in my latest article[0] about AI pair programming.

[0] https://levelup.gitconnected.com/you-are-bugs-improving-your...

Has anyone worked on a project with the "Surgical Team" organization? If so, how well did it work compared to other team organizations?

I think the idea had a lot of merit, but have never seen it in practice.

Even more so, it’s harder for two vibe coders to work in a single repo where AI is making repo wide changes.

My key takeaway from the book is the importance of conceptual integrity and how hard this is to achieve the bigger the team. I think this is just as true today as it ever has been before.