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by opportune 2674 days ago
The way development works, 95+%, yes math is simply guardrails. But it definitely isn’t always. I would actually say that we as the developer community have done a remarkable job of abstracting the hard math away from needing to be thought of by the average developer by bundling the math so invisibly into libraries.

I highly disagree regarding algorithms. No you don’t need to use the most modern Matrix multiplication algorithm ever but there are lots of situations (at least at large companies or people working with large amounts of data) where you do need to be aware of computational complexity.