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Equation 5 · Part 4 · What Changes When a Whole Team Adopts Claude Code, Not Just One Developer

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S(g)=1(1−p)+p/g,lim⁡g→∞S(g)=11−p.S(g) = \frac{1}{(1-p) + p/g}, \qquad \lim_{g \to \infty} S(g) = \frac{1}{1-p}.
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The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.

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The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.

The passage around this formula

That framing is worth making precise, because it is a structural claim, not a figure of speech. Let p be the share of a change’s total cycle time that code generation itself used to consume before Claude Code, so (1-p) is the share consumed by review and everything else. If generation alone speeds up by a factor g , total cycle time scales as (1-p) + p/g , and the achievable speed-up in total cycle time is S(g)=1(1−p)+p/g,lim⁡g→∞S(g)=11−pS(g) = \frac{1}{(1-p) + p/g}, \qquad \lim_{g \to \infty} S(g) = \frac{1}{1-p}. Amdahl’s law was originally about parallel processors, not engineering teams, but the constraint has the same shape: a serial bottleneck that does not scale caps the benefit of accelerating everything around it, no matter how large g gets. For a team, review is that…

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