Nobody's arguing that speed isn't important. What's more important is to get things right. And no, incorporating speed in the specification doesn't make any di

Nobody's arguing that speed isn't important. What's more important is to get things right. And no, incorporating speed in the specification doesn't make any difference. Suppose the spec says, "page must load in 200ms." Fine, if you don't care what correct page loading means, you're perfectly served with a blank one. What's at the root of such intellectual capitulation? Complacency? Absence of skills? "Correctness is hard, let's just randomly perturb settings instead while fiddling with a stopwatch. Correctness is hard, let's just conflate motion with progress." Whence the shabby treatment of correctness like porn: I'll know it when I see it.