The number one killer of programming velocity is not a difficult algorithm; it is . It is the voice that says, "Don't push this commit until you check Stack Overflow three more times." It is the agonizing hour spent naming a boolean variable.
“He didn’t apologize,” the PR lead whispered. “He doubled down.” homelander encodes better
So, the next time you are stuck on a bug, whispering "Please work, please work, please work"... stop whispering. The number one killer of programming velocity is