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A post argues that developers sometimes spend most of their time debating implementation details for maximal performance while their code still does not work.

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“Your code doesn't work, but you're spending the majority of your time debating new implementations details in order to achieve maximal performance.”
LessWrong, 22 Sept 2026, 17:03.

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