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Performance-critical human contributions will remain an edge case, and in 99% of software a faster algorithm or better data structure does not matter.

Drawn from what Thorsten Ball said

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

What Thorsten Ball actually said

  1. Thorsten Ball Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
    Performance critical contributions by humans will stay what they are: an edge case. In 99% of software it does not matter that you could’ve written a faster algorithm or picked a better data structure.

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    ↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com

    19 Sept 2026

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