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by s1gsegv 437 days ago
As a concept it feels like it should be obvious, you can’t expect a runner to sprint consistently, sure in a world where the farther they run the more money you make its ideal if they could but it just isn’t how the human body works, they will eventually slow down or otherwise call it quits.

I fundamentally believe the same is true of SWEs, you can’t get more out of people than they have long-term by telling them they ought to be “sprinting,” yet if you ask me that’s the concept being pushed.