[OtherShrezzing]

> but optimizing everywhere is a recipe for using up the resources to actually optimize where it matters.

Is it? My front end engineer spending 90 minutes cutting dependencies out of the site isn’t going to deny YouTube the opportunity to improve their streaming algorithms.

[josephg]

It might do the opposite. We need to teach engineers of all stripes how to analyse and fix performance problems if we’re going to do anything about them.

[molszanski]

If you turn this into open problem, without hypothetical limits of what an frontend engineer ca do it would become more interesting and more impactful in real life. That said engineer is human being who could use that time in myriad other ways that would be more productive to helping the environment

[simgt]

That's exactly it, but I fully expected whataboutism under my comment. If I had mentioned video streaming as a disclaimer, I'd probably have gotten crypto or Shein as counter "arguments".

Everyone needs to be aware that we are part of an environment that has limited resources beyond "money" and act accordingly, whatever the scale.