"Their manager might, but engineering managers only want to pay for discrete new capabilities, i.e. making their developers 18% faster when writing code did not resonate strongly enough."
Are there a lot of businesses where individual developer productivity, with a narrow definition of LOC per hour, is the bottleneck?
I've worked for 10 years as a web dev and the bottleneck is very often at the product management level (tickets not ready, goals changing, haven't got the credentials for the 3rd party API yet..) and a minority of the time it's my brain (yes sometimes I need to think before I write code). It's rarely how fast I can write a function. So if you make me 18% faster at something I do 1% of the time... good luck making money out of me
Are there a lot of businesses where individual developer productivity, with a narrow definition of LOC per hour, is the bottleneck?
I've worked for 10 years as a web dev and the bottleneck is very often at the product management level (tickets not ready, goals changing, haven't got the credentials for the 3rd party API yet..) and a minority of the time it's my brain (yes sometimes I need to think before I write code). It's rarely how fast I can write a function. So if you make me 18% faster at something I do 1% of the time... good luck making money out of me