Let's say you have a for loop that is supposed to run once, but some "programmer" calls it a hundred times. The program still works, but it's a lot slower.
Input lag on devices has doubled or tripled from the 1980s while clock speeds have increased drastically. Reddit and Hackernews do essentially the same task, yet Hackernews' load times are almost instant while Reddit takes more than a second to load at times.
It's true that you can't fake a minimum viable product, but it seems to me there is a long way from that to actually making something good.
Sort of. Would a user use all of that compute if it all wasn’t wasted? Probably not. What we’ve done is “inflate away” (similar to fiat and central bank policy) the need for additional human developer time through Moore’s law. We all pay for this through annual tech spend, which keeps the advancement treadmill running.
Human time is expensive, so it makes sense to throw anything cheaper at the problem first.
Input lag on devices has doubled or tripled from the 1980s while clock speeds have increased drastically. Reddit and Hackernews do essentially the same task, yet Hackernews' load times are almost instant while Reddit takes more than a second to load at times.
It's true that you can't fake a minimum viable product, but it seems to me there is a long way from that to actually making something good.