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Written from a fractional CTO's chair, this reframes your best solo developer as a risk to actively de-risk, not just an asset to celebrate. It is practical about the exact habits (commits, docs, shared access) that keep one strong person from becoming a hostage situation. Good for a nontechnical founder who wants to know what to insist on.
Your 10x Engineer Might Be a Bus Factor of 1
From MindCTO by Pavel Shpin 10 min read
- A brilliant lone developer can be your biggest concentration of risk
- Insist on shared access, clear commits, and written decisions from the start
- De-risking key people is a management job, not a technical one
