Stop charging clients to remove intentionally bad optimization

James Brightman
Dev Genius
Published in
3 min readApr 28, 2022

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Can we stop making thread.sleep() a tool for exploitation, please.

If you frequently browse Dev forums you may have seen a new trend that almost seems too stupid to be true.

Some devs are littering their code with instructions to slow down execution time, then charging the client a premium to “fix” the performance.

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