[commandlinefan]

I love seeing efficient use of computing resources. As long as I've been coding, it's been sort of a mantra that "programmer time is more important than execution time" - leading to very inefficient implementations that waste not just processor time but user's time. I keep hoping that with the ongoing migration to "the cloud" that identifies the relationship between efficiency and real cost, there'll be a resurgence in proper optimization.

[sph87]

This is why I've started moving towards embedded. There is something really nice about being back on a chip with <1MB ram and a handful of Mhz. I know it's really just a leftward shift of a curve though. By the time I am getting ready to retire in 20 years these little 40mm devices will probably be running 500B parameter models.

[freeone3000]

We’ll shift it back with “distributed edge computing”.

But even with AWS, computing resources are cheaper than developer resources. It is very hard to needlessly burn even $20/hr on AWS without it needing much more time to fix

[pklausler]

"computing resources are cheaper than developers up to some level of scaling" is more accurate.