[cmwelsh]

If your software really takes two weeks for an individual to configure and install, then perhaps you should look into providing a script or even a virtual machine image to automate the process. The strawman argument weakens the overall message that the author is trying to convey.

[mattpardee]

The other possibility is developers are given a computer that's in a locked down jail cell state. But pointing this out (and other configuration scenarios) distracts from the central idea: developers battle configuration hell because our processes are disconnected from each other. It's more than a configuration script, this is about solving a bigger problem. Think of remote development too and collaboration, this is something we can solve with cloud tooling.