It’s not tech in general that’s slower moving, but rather that software development is slower moving today (in my opinion). To launch a minor feature at a mode

It’s not tech in general that’s slower moving, but rather that software development is slower moving today (in my opinion). To launch a minor feature at a modern tech company you need to: - pitch your idea to your manager and get alignment - get approval from your skip manager and buy-in from your product managers - align your idea with your partner team’s roadmap - go through a design review with your team - go through a design review with your principal engineers - write a task breakdown - actually write the code - write tests for the code - write integration tests for the code - fix build issues - push multiple code reviews and respond to comments - whoops you need to rebase and that shared component you used just changed it’s interface yesterday breaking your tests - your integration tests failed in preprod blocking your coworker’s launch, better fix that - a couple rounds of AppSec, UX and PM review - time to coordinate the launch of your feature toggle with 6 partner teams - oops there was a minor bug you need to roll back your feature and resolve it overnight How much of this overhead existed in the 90s? If a single lone genius like Ken Thompson or John Carmack wants to write a new feature or product and get it out to customers they have 10x+ the work today (at a modern tech company).