alt Hacker NewsMost of the people doing the most rote and monotonous work were and are doing so in some of the least productive circumstances, with clear ways of increasing speed and productivity.
If development velocity was truly an important factor in these businesses, we'd migrated away from that gang of four ass Java 8 codebase, given these poor souls offices, or at least cubicles to reduce the noise, we wouldn't make them spend 3 hours a day in ceremonial meetings.
The reason none of this happens is that even if these developers crank out code 10x faster, by the time it's made it past all the inertia and inefficiencies of the organization, the change is nearly imperceptible. Though the bill for the new office and the 2 year refactoring effort are much more tangible.
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>all the inertia and inefficiencies of the organization
Honestly you can probably use this as a means to measure the amount of regulation, graft, and corruption in an economy.
In a wild west free for all code velocity would likely be very fast with software popping up, changing rapidly, and some quickly disappearing.
But in an economy that doesn't care what you make, then who you pay or what laws you buy is far more important.
Yep. It's ridiculous to talk about 10x or 5x or 2x anything in any but the smallest companies. All this talk about programmer velocity is micro-optimizing something that's not a bottleneck.