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Thing is that you cannot do 24/7 oncall with two person and Opus 5.5 . Also bus factor start to be pretty big if there is only two persons etc. There is still reasons why FAANGS are so big.


Sure you can, as long as nobody complains too much about problems during night if those 2 people can work overtime every now and then.

You can probably even promise 99% uptime (sounds good enough to most buyers probably?) even if people sleep 8 hours a day as long as the failures comes no earlier than than 15 minutes into their sleep and only happens at most once a month (1% of 30 days is 7,8 hours).


^ this. It's so doable. You can even hit targets better than this.


>Thing is that you cannot do 24/7 oncall with two person and Opus 5.5

Almost all 24/7 on call is support theater anyway.

>Also bus factor start to be pretty big if there is only two persons etc.

Not if a newcomer can be assisted by the other person or even just by AI in understanding the codebase.


depends where you work. on a tiny team the 3am page is usually real and its usually you


Ok, three persons.




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