korrents

Our readingWhat is a korrent?

A 300-millisecond response budget is not an achievement but an admission: 300 milliseconds is an eternity in computing, and a product pitching it shows how far the bar has fallen.

Drawn from what Casey Muratori said

Subjectsoftware performance
What this subject means

software performance Speed as a mark of quality: bloat, boot times, and software that got slower on hardware that got faster.

Mental modelSpeed is a feature

On the topicWhich mental models should a designer think with?under our view: Speed is a feature: waiting makes everything feel complicated

What Casey Muratori actually said

  1. Casey Muratori Game and engine programmer
    300 milliseconds is like an eternity in computing, right? And so if you're talking about like our pitch is that we're not more than 300 milliseconds, that just shows you how the bar was so far past where it probably should have been for something.

    Where this was said

    Watch from 0:20:51 plays here

    ↗Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratoriyoutube.com

    26 Aug 2026 · video · 1h 53m · spoken · machine transcript

    All 26 korrents from this recordingthis one is 3rd

Added to korrents 7 Sept 2026 · How quotes work · Something wrong? Tell us

Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?

I hold this too

Related korrents

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.

See this claim on the map