Once upon a time I bought into velocity arguments, I wanted to be fast, I didn't like working on slow teams. Eventually I landed up in domains which are intrins

Once upon a time I bought into velocity arguments, I wanted to be fast, I didn't like working on slow teams. Eventually I landed up in domains which are intrinsically slow. On my current team, an engineer might only write ~10 CRs a year and no one cares, about 1 in 4 of those CRs could arguably be patented and each will be used by 10s of thousands of enterprise customers. More domains than you would expect benefit from highly innovative work, and get less benefit from simply writing code as fast as possible.