Fast machines, slow machines
Fully agree with the premise. Most youngish users have never even experienced true performance. Our software stacks are shit and rotten to the core, it's an embarrassment. We'll have the smartest people in the world enabling chip design approaching the atomic level, and then there's us software "engineers" pissing it away with an inefficiency factor of 10 million %.<p>We are very, very bad at what we do, yet somehow get richly rewarded for it.<p>We've even invented a new performance problem: intermittent performance. Performance isn't just poor, it's also extremely variable due to distributed computing, lamba, whichever. So users can't even learn the performance pattern.<p>Where chip designers move heaven and earth the move compute and data as closely together as is physically possible, leave it to us geniuses to tear them apart as far as we can. Also, leave it to us to completely ignore parallel computing so that your 16 cores are doing fuck all.<p>You may now comment on why our practices are fully justified.