Bangalore: The dilemma of whether lone developers work better than developer groups, is one that has plagued the field of software development for an age. “How do we get better at what we do?” is a question that constantly needs to be asked, and answered at least in some way.

A report on TechCrunch tried to answer that often asked question for the sake of all coding. Coding, according to the report, has always been considered to be a field that one could excel at when alone, and especially since a single excellent coder is universally considered to be worth more than a team of mediocre programmers. But the problem with this idea is that lone coders are anyway human, and if you depend on a one-man team, wrong decisions made by one person could mangle the whole company.

How do companies try to mitigate this risk?