How I program with Agents

David Crawshaw · 8 Jun 2025 · crawshaw.io ↗

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Graphics chips have far more room for future performance gains than CPUs, which are nearing physical limits.

Their wordsGPUs are not nearly as restricted in their future progress as CPUs which are far more constrained in how they can physically improve (compiler-driven ILP only goes so far).
Our reading
Most software has too few users or too short a lifespan for long-term maintenance costs to matter.

Their wordsVery few programs ever reach the point that they are heavily used and long-lived. Almost everything has few users, or is short-lived, or both.