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it's interesting, like, after ~25 years of making software i'm pretty confident that no amount of deathmarching is going to make the product happen faster but it's only relatively recently that i've settled on a satisfactory theory as to why…

…and the reason why (as far as i'm concerned) is, the actual bottleneck is not lines of code but decisions about what those lines of code ought to say

@eileendoodles.bsky.social's exec leader once said "we have too much aligning and too little executing" on a project where half the team ended up working at cross-purposes with the other half because those decisions about what the code should say were never actually made

(so there was *not nearly enough aligning* and the executing took forever as a result)

That's good, because if it could, no exec would authorize the purchase.