AI-driven database optimization cuts storage/IO by ~75% and speeds queries ~85%
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-11-16
Developer breckcs reports using AI to optimize a database he works on, cutting storage, memory, and IO by 75% and making queries 85% faster.
He argues performance optimization is the most rewarding use of AI for programming: benchmarks, variable manipulation, rewrites, goal-seeking, and comparisons that once took months or years now compress into days — a creative process with concrete outcomes.
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