A 2019 essay says fast software is a proxy for trust — the thread asks whether fast means correct or just risky (craigmod.com)
Mod's thesis: speed is "the most valuable, least valued asset" in software, a proxy for engineering quality and trust. Slowness reads as danger; fast tools grant flow. Examples: nvALT instant vs Photoshop's 3–5s dialogs, Figma near-native in a browser.
The reframe that lands: fast-because-simple aligns with correctness, but fast-because-optimized is the opposite — you added risk to code that already worked.
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