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the russian programmer guy at my second to last job had a story about how back in mother russia his company had a big contract with some megacorp to make their primary bit of software and when they got to the release stage it was deemed the software was 'too performant' and the programmers were told to put in an artificial delay on every request.
whenever contract renewals came around they promised to increase performance of the software as part of the contract to get them to sign and would then just change the variable in the config to something slightly less and re-bill.