Series: The Physics of Compilation - Part 2 (Building Universes from Code) In physics, gravity determines the pace of the cosmos. Around a massive object, time itself slows down. In the world of software development, a massive codebase exerts a similar kind of "temporal gravity." The larger the system becomes, the slower the feedback loop rotates. When we are in a state of flow, we are moving at the speed of thought. We make a change, we test, we observe. But when a compile t