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points by renegade-otter 2 days ago | 0 comments
There is plenty of evidence. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR4i3Ho9zZY&t=37s

The reason is clear - without scarcity of compute or memory, performance is no longer a feature. That works until all the laziness compounds into a crawling bloat.

This is regarding desktop software. With services, microservices is basically a performance anti-pattern that is used without any due diligence in most cases.

[–] snarfy 2 days ago
You forgot cost. Performant software is out there, but you have to pay for it.

With most software being free, cost is optimized for the developers not users and we end up with Electron apps

[–] gf000 2 days ago
"hey Claude, rewrite it in rust"

I'm semi-sarcastic here, but this is actually possible now, while it was an often futile and very expensive roundtrip before AI resulting in two versions of your software that you have to simultaneously maintain.

[–] DaiPlusPlus 2 days ago
> "hey Claude, rewrite it in rust"

Things get lost-in-translation, and Claude doesn't seek your input for decisions that matter.

[–] renegade-otter 2 days ago
I always say - "give me the fastest baseline framework and I will destroy it with one bad SQL query".