at one of my first positions in operations, the director who had years of experience at telecom companies in the 70s and 80s (i.e places like AT&T and Bell Labs

at one of my first positions in operations, the director who had years of experience at telecom companies in the 70s and 80s (i.e places like AT&T and Bell Labs) told us one of the tricks to getting developers to write fast code was to give them slower machines to work on. it would be nice to see this modern trend reverse.