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Until recently, it was always cheaper to forego software architecture optimizations and rely on faster hardware, but now with AI I think this changes that calculus.


Yes and no. Faster hardware doesn’t solve pathologically broken algorithms :)


Worth's law: Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.



*Wirth




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