Reading up on Dan Luu
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- Bothering to understand — The Autodidacts
Embracing the discomfort of looking up unfamiliar concepts builds lasting knowledge that pays off when similar problems arise later, turning effort into future advantage.
- There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
AI dramatically reduces the cost of software optimization, enabling workload-specific performance gains that were previously too expensive to pursue.
- Nobody knows how large software products work
Large software products are so complex and rapidly changing that even engineers often cannot answer basic questions about them without investigative research.