dhh: Agents have made obsessive performance tuning essentially free
garrytan · x · 2026-10-13
dhh argues one of the best parts of the agent revolution is that obsessive performance tuning now costs near zero, letting developers optimize everything to the hardware's limits without worrying about corporate ROI. In a quoted tweet, a photographer with 16 years of professional Lightroom experience says editing a full wedding in RAWmakase feels so much faster that it's the first tool that could genuinely replace Lightroom.
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