Ah yes, Brooks' Law in its purest form. The ultimate middle finger to every project manager who thinks throwing more bodies at a late project will somehow speed things up. Been in this industry 15 years and watched countless PMs discover this truth the hard way. For the uninitiated: Fred Brooks wrote "The Mythical Man-Month" in 1975 after watching IBM's OS/360 project implode spectacularly. His insight? Adding people to a late software project makes it later. Why? Because now your original devs are spending all their time onboarding the new folks instead of, you know, actually coding. Next time your boss suggests "let's just add three more developers" to fix that deadline you're about to miss, just silently email them this quote. Then update your resume, because they probably won't get it.