Using AI to plot long-term performance graphs helps catch subtle regressions

lemire · x · 2026-08-23

Author advocates examining long-term historical performance graphs to detect small code regressions that per-commit checks might miss. While optimizing one part can cause tiny regressions elsewhere, historical data helps judge tradeoffs. Notably, AI has made this engineering feat easier than ever—one can simply prompt an AI to generate the plot.

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