[Verse 1] Ten engineers turn to fifty fast Your keyboard days are fading past Can't code every feature like before Architecture plans need so much more Database splits and service mesh While interview schedules never rest [Chorus] Thirty building, twenty-five for people Twenty-five architecture, twenty strategy Hiring, structure, technical debt equal Culture brewing, delegation key Growth stage CTO, let go the code Trust your team to share the load [Verse 2] Microservices calling out your name Monolith creaking under strain Junior developers need your guide Senior engineers want space to stride Code reviews pile up like autumn leaves While system crashes make you grieve [Chorus] Thirty building, twenty-five for people Twenty-five architecture, twenty strategy Hiring, structure, technical debt equal Culture brewing, delegation key Growth stage CTO, let go the code Trust your team to share the load [Bridge] Process introduction feels so wrong But chaos grows when teams get strong Standups, retrospectives, documentation Save you from production devastation Delegate the midnight debugging calls Before your scaling empire falls [Verse 3] Team structure matters more than speed Squads and tribes fulfill the need Technical debt collectors knock While you're building hiring docs Engineering culture starts with you Values lived, not just reviewed [Chorus] Thirty building, twenty-five for people Twenty-five architecture, twenty strategy Hiring, structure, technical debt equal Culture brewing, delegation key Growth stage CTO, let go the code Trust your team to share the load [Outro] Fifty engineers need systems thinking Not your fingers always linking Classes, functions, database calls Scale through people, not through sprawl
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