{"slug": "it-s-time-to-revise-jeff-bezos-famous-2-pizza-rule-for-the-ai-era-cursor-field", "title": "It's time to revise Jeff Bezos' famous '2-pizza rule' for the AI era, Cursor field CTO says", "summary": "Cursor field CTO David Pan declared the end of Jeff Bezos' 'two-pizza rule' for team sizes, arguing that in the AI era teams have become so small that two pizzas are too much. Pan's comments on X sparked debate over new metaphors like the 'quarter-pizza team' or 'three-slice team.'", "body_md": "In the [\"tiny team\" era](https://www.businessinsider.com/category/tiny-teams) of AI, your meeting doesn't need as many pepperonis.\n\nJeff Bezos popularized the \"[two pizza rule](https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-jeff-bezos-two-pizza-rule-productive-meetings-2017-7),\" the idea that any Amazon meeting should remain small enough to be fed with two pies. The rule also influenced team sizes\n\nThese days, many workplace teams have gotten even smaller. David Pan, Cursor's field CTO, put it simply: \"RIP to the two pizza team.\"\n\nPan wrote on X that Bezos created an \"all-time great metaphor,\" one that shaped engineering for over twenty years.\n\n\"He was right about small teams,\" he wrote. \"But in the AI era, two pizzas is too much pizza.\"\n\nRIP to the two pizza team. Jeff Bezos gave us an all-time great metaphor: keep the team small enough to feed with two pizzas. It shaped how engineering orgs got built for 20+ years. He was right about small teams. Still is. But in the AI era, two pizzas is too much pizza.\n\n— David Pan (@davep)[July 6, 2026]\n\nIn the comments, users debated what the new metaphor should be. One proposed the [quarter-pizza team](https://x.com/raju_datla1/status/2074153518273904967?s=20); another said it was the [three-slice team](https://x.com/polymorph3us/status/2074154900888387873?s=20).\n\nAmazon writes that \"ideally, this is a team of less than 10 people: smaller teams minimize lines of communication and decrease overhead of bureaucracy and decision-making.\"\n\n\"This allows two-pizza teams to spend more time focusing on their customers, and constantly experimenting and innovating on their behalf — the biggest priority of high-performing teams at Amazon,\" the company's website says.\n\nSome still follow the rule. Spencer Rascoff, the CEO of dating app company Match Group, told [Business Insider](https://www.businessinsider.com/tinder-ceo-spencer-rascoff-king-of-love-2026-3?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=personal-author-post-henry-chandonnet) that he was a fan in March.\n\nPan knows the rule firsthand. [Before Cursor](https://www.businessinsider.com/cursor-ceo-michael-truell-spacex-elon-musk-anthropic-2026-6), he worked at Amazon from 2011 to 2014 as an engineering manager, according to his LinkedIn.\n\nThere are also competing pressures on team sizes. Some managers want [smaller teams](https://www.businessinsider.com/category/tiny-teams), with fewer people doing more tasks. Others want bigger, [flatter teams](https://www.businessinsider.com/middle-managers-have-more-direct-reports-after-great-flattening-2026-1) with fewer layers of management. Those wide teams may need more pizzas.\n\nOf course, many users commented that they themselves could devour the pies — even on a shrunken team.\n\n\"I've learned that you all can eat a lot of pizza,\" Pan commented in the wake of his initial post.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/it-s-time-to-revise-jeff-bezos-famous-2-pizza-rule-for-the-ai-era-cursor-field", "canonical_source": "https://www.businessinsider.com/cursors-field-cto-revise-jeff-bezos-2-pizza-rule-2026-7", "published_at": "2026-07-08 08:18:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-08 08:40:43.881775+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-startups", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["David Pan", "Cursor", "Jeff Bezos", "Amazon", "Spencer Rascoff", "Match Group"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/it-s-time-to-revise-jeff-bezos-famous-2-pizza-rule-for-the-ai-era-cursor-field", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/it-s-time-to-revise-jeff-bezos-famous-2-pizza-rule-for-the-ai-era-cursor-field.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/it-s-time-to-revise-jeff-bezos-famous-2-pizza-rule-for-the-ai-era-cursor-field.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/it-s-time-to-revise-jeff-bezos-famous-2-pizza-rule-for-the-ai-era-cursor-field.jsonld"}}