The Two-slice Team

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For the past two decades, Amazon’s “two-pizza rule” has been the gold standard for team size.

The story goes like this: At a company retreat in 2002, when Amazon managers wanted more communication, Jeff Bezos fired back that “communication is terrible!” A few weeks later, he restructured the company around small autonomous teams. If a team had more than 10 people—more than could be fed by two pizzas—it was too big.

Twenty-four years later, two-pizza teams are now themselves too big for building software products. When each employee is armed with Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3, the ideal team size shrinks even further.