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<snark>Time spent optimizing assembly language is never wasted.</snark> That's only half-snark. It was "wasted" in the sense that it wasn't as useful as the O
by OhMeadhbh 1y ago
<snark>Time spent optimizing assembly language is never wasted.</snark>
That's only half-snark. It was "wasted" in the sense that it wasn't as useful as the OP thought it would be. But diving deep into a technical problem? That left an indelible pattern on the OP's psyche. If they ever have to do something like that again, it will certainly be easier. And since AI is going to be doing all the simple coding tasks, humans will have to dive into the deep, hard tasks.
- xandrius 1y agoIt could also burn someone out and take out the real reason technology exists: to help someone.
- labadal 1y agoKind of like math, huh? Some people burn out on "meaningless" impossible problems. Others get obsessed with them and make significant contributions along the way to failure.
- bluGill 1y agoAlso there is no way for author to know that his optimizations wouldn't work without trying them. We are not even sure that his analysis of why they work is correct (though it sounds reasonable). There is also the possibility that author could use the new found information to fix his optimizations so they are better.