Can you then give me your definition of “lazyness” The dictionary just gives me “the quality of being unwilling to work or use energy; idleness.”

And i don’t see it anywhere in this situation. They’re asked to do a job a certain way (or for management, to make sure it happens in a certain way), and they do that to the best of their ability.

Could they do it better from an performance/software engineering standpoint if they had infinite time/budget? for sure. But that’s not the world we live in.

Wouldn’t he only be lazy if he’s not doing anything else more productive instead?

He gets payed to do a specific job, and does it the best way possible given the constraints. I don’t see how you find lazyness in that.

The customer simply isn’t willing to pay the extra time for it to be optimized, and he ain’t doing it for free.

I don’t know which job you do, but do you spend a lot of voluntary overtime just to do things the customer isn’t even asking or paying for just because you think it’s better?

It’s not just software development, it’s everywhere. Devices are cheap, people are expensive. So it’s not lazy, he’s being asked to put his expensive time into efforts the customer actually wants to pay for. If having him optimize the code further costs way more than buying a better computer, it doesn’t make sense economically for him to waste his time on that.

Is that yet another example of how the economy has strange incentives? For sure, but that doesn’t make him lazy.