The analogy I learned in school had to do with pregnancy.

That's interesting. I can think of a lot of tasks that take a long time, like building a house or writing a book, that do go faster if you have more people working on them.

This isn’t an apt analogy. That would suggest hiring more Devs makes computers faster. But if you measure passenger throughput, hiring Pilots & Planes can increase passengers Hiring Devs & computers can increase code development Both require processes & infrastructure