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Fully agree. Developers should regularly dog-food their software and they should have to do it on the lowest-spec machine/phone that the software claims to be supported on. Too many developers run their creations on their fully-maxxed-out development workstation beast machine, observe it runs fast enough, and call it a day.

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It's a tremendous waste of money for a business to spend expensive developer time waiting on garbage workstations. Simply targeting benchmark/latency metrics is enough.

Precisely, but how well is that working out in practice?

Forcing them to CARE about targeting benchmark/latency metrics is the sticking point. And that requires shoving their face in it for long enough that it becomes unbearable.

As a web developer, it’s less about me caring and more about my boss caring.

If anything, give the C-suites the shitbox laptops.

It's only a waste if it doesn't lead to better performance driven by personal negative experience

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