There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying that people talking about how LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once they re-write everything in super-optimized assembly. We're not quite at the point where we want to write everything in assembly , but some variant of what Nolan Lawson said about testing, you can choose how many bugs you want now , which I less eloquently noted here , is becoming more true for performance. In response to a comment in my last post that the cost of formerly specialized performance work has dropped by many orders of magnitude and performance wor

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