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> We should procrastinate feature work now and then when there’s an especially promising opportunity to optimize and improve our code

I've seen people admonish developers to do this for over 30 years now. I've never seen a developer or group of developers be successfully able to deftly navigate the complicated politics around actually doing so.

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I've seen people admonish developers to do this for over 30 years now. I've never seen a developer or group of developers be successfully able to deftly navigate the complicated politics around actually doing so.

There's a big difference between 30 years ago and now, and that difference is that hardware performance increases has slowed to a crawl.

It's possible that in the near future software might start competing on performance again. (I hope.)

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