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I would like also that devs run their site/apps on downgraded machine/VM so that they can early detect performance issues.

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I’ve realized how huge a problem this is by spending time with older relatives recently. Many of them have >5 year old phones (why upgrade?), that current websites and apps often just don’t run on. They SHOULD be able to run - they just don’t.

In my company the frontend team has shiny new powerful machines. I on the other hand don't have enough RAM to compile our server.

Does that create a sort of Conway's law pushing complexity to the FE?

They offset that risk by taking 2 months to design and implement complex features like "add a new text box in the form, to enter an IP address".

I haven't seen them merge a pull request in less than 3 days. However simple.

The team lead, in 2 years, contributed less than 20 pull requests, all of which were 1 to 3 line changes to CSS or similar.

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