--- image: "/images/notes/smaller-flatter-teams.jpg" title: "Smaller, Flatter Teams: It's Happening" date: 2026-02-26 url: "https://x.com/ccatalini/status/2027144582480408632" tags: ['ai-agi'] deck: "Intelligence tools paired with smaller and flatter teams are changing what it means to build and run a company — and junior roles vanish before people can build expertise." tweetCount: 4 likes: 45 reposts: 4 --- It's happening: "the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly" [x.com](https://x.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343?s=20) We unpack why and the broader dynamics of the transition towards AGI here: [arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20946) Junior roles vanish before people can build expertise (Missing Junior Loop). Senior experts encode their own tacit knowledge into training data, automating themselves from within (Codifier's Curse). Only through rapid augmentation and accelerated synthetic practice can we remain peers with our own creation.