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I love factorio but it’s also an important lesson on the traps of premature optimization and automation. This is my favorite factorio video and it shows a lot
by rdtwo 4y ago
I love factorio but it’s also an important lesson on the traps of premature optimization and automation.
This is my favorite factorio video and it shows a lot about how you can prevent a lot of unnecessary optimization in the early game.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LSyrbPsnNGo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LSyrbPsnNGo
And you can indeed never bother with circuits on refining for example. In fact you don’t need to touch a lot of the features in the late game if you stay focused.
If you can find someone that plays like this then you have a real winner.
Very much how Craig’s list found success in their business.
- tjs8rj 4y agoIf Craigslist is the pinnacle, is the best software engineer one who can create the most “impact” per hour of development? Think Craigslist has several engineers, but it’s really a skeleton crew for the scale of their “impact”
- rdtwo 4y agoI mean there is no best, only best for application but imo a really strong senior engineer can identify the problem and build the most efficient minimal framework that gets you to that goal. Understand that getting bogged down in over optimization for a future potential but undefined scenario is not Usally worth the upfront investment. Additional he understands that it’s ok to over build cheap things like assemblers and steam power plants, and accept 80% utilization from solar instead of trying to bank the last 20% into accumulators. That kind of thinking not only results in a better, cheaper,faster (pick 2) product but also teaches junior engineers how to be more efficient by example