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>>>At some point, execution speed starts to matter more than the elegance of the code.

Execution speed only matters to investors and the stock market. Your users don't give a shit.

This is just false. For starters, your users most _definitely_ don't care about how "elegant" your code is either. They want new features to keep them engaged, or to make the product better. The quicker they get those wants fulfilled by your product, the less likely they are to churn off your product onto something else that has those features that they are missing.

The only people who care about code elegance are the people looking at the code, which is orders of magnitude fewer people than those who are _using_ the artifacts of what the code actually represents.

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