Aiden Bai: performance engineering is now just a matter of tokens
aidenybai · x · 2026-10-15
Aiden Bai observes that performance engineering used to filter out interesting people—grokking flamegraphs and holding encyclopedic knowledge of underlying systems—but is now mostly commoditized: anyone with enough tokens can improve speed given some benchmark.
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