12/06/2026
Software teams are shrinking. AI agents are absorbing the work that used to take larger teams to coordinate. What’s emerging is three people and a constellation of agents – the new cross-functional is understanding customer problems, orchestrating agents and validating outcomes. Agents handle the scaling. Humans handle the judgment.
These are skills the best engineers and product managers have always had. What’s changed is that you’re no longer spending 70 percent of your day writing code or waiting days for feedback on working software.
Gareth Evans explores what this means for teams, roles and the organisational structure in our blog… https://hyprinnovation.io/our-thoughts/why-software-teams-are-shrinking-to-three-people