Taking the article's analogy of the "collaboration while driving", the F1 sport is quite insanely collaborative. For example, the drivers literally do have someone in their ear by radio being their coach and spotter for the entire trip. I've never heard of the equivalent in software. Does anyone know of anything like this?
We literally followed his “bad” analogy for driving by doing software teaming aka mob pair programming. You switch drivers every 10m or so. It can be great. Everyone learns a lot about the feature and the codebase fast. But it can feel slow. And it tires some more than others. Most people liked it.
Except, they have one person in the ear. Not 4-5, not people giving opposite opinions, not drive by takes.
By the time a race engineer is communicating with a driver all of that has been shaken out. Specific concrete options are given to the driver, and usually only one.
