Jonathan Blow: "Software has been freeriding on hardware." True or false? If I make the code that does a particular task smaller, faster, less resource-intens

Jonathan Blow: "Software has been freeriding on hardware." True or false? If I make the code that does a particular task smaller, faster, less resource-intensive, then I am not freeriding. He says people do not reference the "five nines" anymore. True? I do not work in the industry anymore. I had no idea this has disappeared. That is really sad. "Developer time" versus "user time". What is more important? Are they equally important? Recently someone posted a video of a recent talk from Margo Seltzer. She said users, e.g., in the Physics Department, do not care about computer languages and these things that computer scientists and programmers think are so important. They care about how fast the program runs. That's all. "Make it go faster". The incentives seem backwards. We pay programmers more today to do less than they did in the past. There is a lot of "busy work" going on.