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Developers make these kinds of improvements all the time. Are you saying that it would have been impossible without AI?

• simonw 7mo ago
  That codebase existed for 20 years and had contributions from nearly 200 people. Sure, they could have come up with those optimizations without AI... but they didn't. What's your theory for why that is?
  • skydhash 7mo ago
    Maybe because it’s a non issue. I saw that those improvements are in the order of micro seconds, while the transfer time of a page is measure in 1/10 seconds or even several seconds. Even a game engine have something like 15 ms to have a frame ready (60hz).
    • simonw 7mo ago
      Lots of small improvements add up - the total performance improvement is 53%. That's significant. If you're the size of Shopify that represents a huge saving in server costs and improved customer-facing latency.
      • skydhash 7mo ago
        > the total performance improvement is 53%. That's significant. This percentage is meaningless on its own. It’s 4 ms shaved off a 7 ms process. You would need to time a whole flow (and I believe databases would add a lot to it, especially with network latency) and figure out how significant the performance improvement is actually. And that without considering if the code changes is not conflicting with some architectural change that is being planned.
        • simonw 7mo ago
          I'll take a 53% performance boost in my template language any day of the week.