Avoiding "premature optimization" has become such a ridiculous philosophy after it became mainstream and people forgot what it's actually supposed to mean. We s

Avoiding "premature optimization" has become such a ridiculous philosophy after it became mainstream and people forgot what it's actually supposed to mean. We stopped understanding the reasoning, and took those two words and ran with it instead. I frequently have people on IRC/discord ask a bot to tell me about "premature optimization" after I ask a specific question to resolve a bottleneck my profiling has uncovered. It's insane, and so sanctimonious.