> I can't but reflect back on another post I made today, which is that everything fails at scale. That reminds me of: Terry Davis' TempleOS Brutal Take Down of

> I can't but reflect back on another post I made today, which is that everything fails at scale. That reminds me of: Terry Davis' TempleOS Brutal Take Down of Linus Torvalds https://youtu.be/gBE6glZNJuU?t=388 https://youtu.be/gBE6glZNJuU?t=388 All computer people today have been jedi-mindtricked, they obsess on if there's one thing they all wanna show you they know is scaling. Everybody is obsessed with scaling. Guess what. Scaling works both ways. You can get bigger. What happens if you look the other direction and you scale down? It doesn't get bad, it gets worse when you scale up. It gets better when you scale down. I think it's a fundamental problem of flexibility of specialization vs generality. I laid out my thoughts on this on the website in the "On Flexibility" article (There's an article on print statements, too, by the way).