[lifeisstillgood]

I want to start the "Slow Code" movement after the slow food movement. Yesterday at a clients code base I was under pressure to fix a thing, and the obvious approach was adding gobs more code, quickly implementing the most obvious route.

And after a (inordinately long) time reading, the light bulb moment happened and I added a single line of code.

In my view, when you are in the business of making Seven-League Boots, you don't need to sprint.

Yes we want to deliver products quickly, but the link between good products, effective business and speed of code writing is tenuous at best. Take your time, line up your shots, and be sure you are a value multiplier. (That's the real 10x programmer. 10x as valuable. That might mean using good SEO techniques to get paying customers, but using boring old SQL back ends)

(Link to the years old article I have not written yet, comments welcome http://www.mikadosoftware.com/articles/slowcodemovement)

[codingmyway]

That's so true. The 10x programmers are those that make everyone else's work faster and more accurate.

To me the main job of a lead dev is setting up all the boring processes of build scripts, continuous deployment, package libraries, testing environments etc., that make the other developer's jobs easier.