If what is slowing your iteration speed is testing, I'd say you are in a somewhat happy place. At least you can write test, speed up the build, or somehow impro

If what is slowing your iteration speed is testing, I'd say you are in a somewhat happy place. At least you can write test, speed up the build, or somehow improve the situation. What drains my soul is when you need to use legacy or poorly designed tools that slow you down and you can't do much about. Here are real examples of times I wasted entire mornings: tools that, if you make a mistake, leave the environment in an inconsistent state, and then you need to manually fix it (it isn't documented and changes on a case by case basis). If you miss anything or make another mistake, start from the beginning again.