“Since last November, 100% of my code has been written by Claude Code. I have not manually edited a single line, shipping 10 to 30 PRs per day.” Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, ships 20-30 pull requests per day. Major code changes, not typo fixes. He runs five parallel AI instances, each on a separate branch. Compare that to a traditional engineer : 3 PRs per week. Cherny isn’t 10% more productive. He’s 30x more productive. That productivity gap compounds at the company level. Anthropic generates ~$5 million per employee. Cursor, $3.3 million. Midjourney, $2 million. Traditional SaaS considers $200-300k strong. A 10-20x difference. One explanation : communication overhead. The math follows Metcalfe’s Law. Each new team member adds n-1 new connections. Coordination drag doesn’t grow linearly. It explodes. Now consider what AI does to this equation. A traditional 150-person organization runs four layers deep. The org chart creates 11,175 potential communication channels. Meetings multiply. Alignment decays. An AI-enabled team producing equivalent output might need 30 people. Communication channels drop to 435. A 96% reduction.