Framework
Cell-Based Engineering
Compartmentalize the team to survive frontier lab poaching.
How it works
- 1Split the team so each group owns component parts without full visibility into the whole architecture.
- 2Accept the coordination cost knowingly. Eric did it specifically because of frontier lab poaching.
- 3Pair it with documentation discipline, or you have traded one risk for a bus-factor problem.
- 4Reserve whole-system knowledge for a small, deliberately chosen group.
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