alt Hacker News> I was not merely stating other bottlenecks. I'm saying they're more important bottlenecks.
This is a pointless statement though. The fact that writing code is a bottleneck, and a critical one, doesn't mean it's the only thing standing between us and fixing/implementing something.
It's like downplaying the time taken by international flights, because people can spend time passing through security.
The truth of the matter is that all software development processes is built around how slow code is written. Now code is ceasing to become a bottleneck and the current software dev process starts to emerge as inadequate.
No, it is not pointless to say other things are more important. An order of importance is how you prioritize things.
You're asserting that it is critical. Why is code change speed critical?
What is your analogy getting it? It does not map to my argument evidently.
You're asserting it is slow code that has evolved our development process. Why? It used to be correctness and appropriateness. How is it suddenly speed?
Bottleneck for what?