[nickpinkston]

We're mostly fighting Murphy's Law, not Moore's law. As said below, most problems are so far from being compute/$ or otherwise technically limited and far more about organizational / political issues putting vast inefficiencies into these systems and priorities that fund their creation.

[wpietri]

Definitely. Honestly, I'd be excited if hardware stopped progressing. Ever-better hardware and ever-shifting platforms cover up a multitude of organizational sins. There's much less incentive to write good code given the rate at which code gets thrown out, and given what people are willing to spend on their AWS bills before asking if something could perhaps be improved.

[pdimitar]

Yep, agreed. But to be fair, hardware will stop progressing pretty soon IMO. PCIe 4.0 backbone is quite strong and a lot of companies, when buying workstations or servers based on it, won't move on from it for quite a while. Or so I hope.

[fuzzfactor]

From the article:

>In a lecture in 1997, Nathan Myhrvold, who was once Bill Gates’s chief technology officer, set out his Four Laws of Software. 1: software is like a gas – it expands to fill its container. 2: software grows until it is limited by Moore’s law. 3: software growth makes Moore’s law possible – people buy new hardware because the software requires it. And, finally, 4: software is only limited by human ambition and expectation.

Codified anti-recycling.