[ElKrist]

"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

[onlyrealcuzzo]

> I've worked for 10 years as a web dev and the bottleneck is very often at the product management level

Anecdotally, this was my experience at many companies before working at FAANG. But it's not my experience now.