Where is this even coming from? The guy above me is saying not to give devs better hardware and to teach them to code better.

I followed up with an example of how using indices in a database to boost the performance helped more than throwing more hardware at it.

This has nothing to do with having worked on old code. Stop trying to pull my comment out of context.

But yes you’re right. Adding indexes to a database does nothing to solve adding a new feature in the scenario you described. I also never claimed it did.