Perhaps. But lots of developers have also heard that premature optimization is the root of all evil. Doesn't mean we don't fall prey to these traps, biases, mis

Perhaps. But lots of developers have also heard that premature optimization is the root of all evil. Doesn't mean we don't fall prey to these traps, biases, misconceptions, etc. Besides that, the rise of the algorithm, like everything else in the US, is subject to interpretation by camps who insist (at their extremes) that racism is real, modern, ubiquitous, and fixable; and those that insist it's a relic of the past, inevitable, imagined, rare.