AI overlords and the end of software bloat
eyeronik1 · reddit · 2026-08-28
The author critiques modern software performance despite hardware advances, blaming API layers, interpreted languages, and obscure open-source dependencies. They suggest using AI to help rewrite stacks in Rust or assembly to achieve significant performance gains and security improvements.
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