The Mythical Man Month

I had to read this essay for my software engineering degree in college called the mythical man month. The author is trying to argue it doesn't work that way. He actually quotes Dorothy Sayer's book, The Mind of the Maker. And so I just found it fascinating that he was connecting these things for computer science. But what puzzles me is that some people like Dr. Michael Levin are very much a neo-plateness.