All they need is a third developer to write the code

All they need is a third developer to divide up the project for them and design the interfaces

This is so frustratingly true.

This feels like Napoleon’s soldiers and the mamluks, or what was said about them.

Or something. Above a project of certain size, divisions of labour and stuff make the project complete faster, but before that it seems like a lot of extra busy work that slow down the project

Gotta put some “hours” into that timesheet somehow, right?

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month - 1975