Sentry cofounder roasts LLM for suggesting 'double the queue workers' as a performance fix

zeeg · x · 2026-09-27

David Cramer, cofounder of Sentry, shared a laughable case: when asked to improve performance, an LLM suggested "double the queue workers." As he put it, that's how you scale, not how you make things faster — even LLMs don't know what performance means. The quip highlights a common weakness of AI coding assistants on performance tuning: conflating throwing more resources at a system with genuine optimization.

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