News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on I miss thinking hard. Parent comment

Re:I miss thinking hard by aleph_minus_one on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:07AM (#46882915)
> In my experience AI is pretty good at performance optimizations as long as you know what to ask for.

This rather tells that the kind of performance optimizations that you ask for are very "standard".

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I miss thinking hard by charcircuit on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @04:08AM (#46883406)
Most optimizations are making sure you do not do work that is unnecessary or that you use the hardware effectively. The standard techniques are all you need 99% of the time you are doing performance work. The hard part about performance is dedicating the time towards it and not letting it regress as you scale the team. With AI you can have agents constantly profiling the codebase identifying and optimizing hotspots as they get introduced.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I miss thinking hard by aleph_minus_one on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @06:52AM (#46884742)
> Most optimizations are making sure you [...] use the hardware effectively.

If you really care about using the hardware effectively, optimizing the code is so much more than what you describe.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I miss thinking hard by boredtofears on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @09:18AM (#46886084)
As most are
[ Parent | on HN ]