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simonwyesterday at 2:19 PM1 replyview on HN

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?


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skydhashyesterday at 4:09 PM

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).

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