Sometimes optimizing code comes at the cost of extra time and effort, but I often see projects bury themselves with pointless complexity that slows both development and execution down.

If developers didn’t have this stupid idea that they need to be typing to be productive, we could save a lot of pain. Sure you might see a solution to a problem that e.g. uses a sorting algorithm, and you can pretty quickly pull a perfectly fine sorting algorithm out your ass in a minute, but what if sorting is completely unnecessary?

Questions like “can I remove the need for sorting” are never asked, and instead we waste time answering questions like “what is the fastest sorting algorithm”.

Sometimes spending an entire day staring into the screen without writing any code is exactly what’s needed to save time and produce a better solution.