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Dan Luu's essay 'There's no reason for software to be slow anymore' argues that AI agents can now perform performance optimizations that previously required specialists, reducing the human-time cost b…

Dan Luu reports that a coding agent achieved a 7% speedup on ripgrep by splicing ahead-of-time compilation into an experimental regex engine, with simple long-running searches improving by 2x to 4x, a…

Dan Luu argues that AI has made software performance optimization accessible to everyone, eliminating the need for rare expertise, and that dynamic custom software fitted to specific workloads is beco…