> Rarely in software does anyone ask for “fast.”

Are you kidding me? My product owner and management ask me all the time to implement features "fast".

Not sure if this is sardonic obstinance... But assuming face-value - that's not what the statement is about.

I disagree with the statement too, as people definitely ask for UX / products to be "snappy", but this isn't about speed of development.

	▲	PaulHoule 7 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I remember the time they were cracking down because I had entered 90%+ of the tickets into the ticket system (the product manager didn't write tickets) and told me that "every ticket has to explain why it is good for the end user". I put it in a ticket to speed up the 40 minutes build and was asked "How does this benefit the end user?" and I said "The end user would have had the product six months ago if the build was faster."
	▲	dkarl 7 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		These days metrics are so ubiquitous that many internal back-end systems have SLAs for tail latencies as well.
	▲	rustybolt 7 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, this was an attempt at humor. But it is quite easy to misunderstand the title.