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Comment by furyofantares

> The bottleneck is understanding the problem. No amount of faster typing fixes that.

Why not? Why can't faster typing help us understand the problem faster?

> When you speed up code output in this environment, you are speeding up the rate at which you build the wrong thing.

Why can't we figure out the right thing faster by building the wrong thing faster? Presumably we were gonna build the wrong thing either way in this example, weren't we?

I often build something to figure out what I want, and that's only become more true the cheaper it is to build a prototype version of a thing.

> You will build the wrong feature faster, ship it, watch it fail, and then do a retro where someone says "we need to talk to users more" and everyone nods solemnly and then absolutely nothing changes.

I guess because we're just cynical.

parent furyofantares 7 months ago

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