"To get fast software today. You're going to need some artists." I don't think that's been true for a couple of decades. Performance issue resolution are now le

"To get fast software today. You're going to need some artists." I don't think that's been true for a couple of decades. Performance issue resolution are now less "The Story of Mel" and more "throw processors, memory and bandwidth at it until it has what we need." Security requirements are more likely to be your limiting factor than raw speed. There are certainly some niche areas where you're working within tight resource limitations (I work in embedded stuff), but Moore's law means we can get MS software to run in an SoC, which means we stopped needing artists a while back.