Some of the tools I use most are slow — and the slowness is the feature. A typewriter forces you to plan a sentence. A film camera makes you wait for the picture. Even a long compile, before LLMs ate compile times, used to be the moment where the next idea showed up.
Speed has its place. But every time someone tells me their workflow needs to be faster, I ask: faster to what? If the answer isn’t sharper, the answer is probably ‘busier.’