@mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
2026-10-16 14:13 UTC
Tbh, thanks to Wirth’s Law there’s a lot of unoptimized code out there. With the squeeze on hardware there’s incentive for developers to actually give a shit about making their software run well so they can maintain/build their userbase.
Don’t get me wrong, the current hardware situation is bullshit, but there’s ways to minimize its impact on consumers
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@Buckshot@programming.dev 2026-10-16 15:38
Thanks. I didn’t know that had a name. I hate wasting resources. The service i work on processes millions of transactions a month on a $14 AWS instance with spare capacity. Did I need to do that? No. But wherever we have performance issues I like to fix it before scaling the instance up. It was on the $7 instance for a while but 1GB memory wasn’t quite cutting it.
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@Witchfire@lemmy.world 2026-10-18 19:03
With the squeeze on hardware there’s incentive for developers to actually give a shit about making their software run well so they can maintain/build their userbase. That’s only if companies still allowed people to hand code. Everything is cuck coded nowadays