@rtyler @bert_hubert I do think a lot of people fail to grasp the potential implication of performance at scale (Dan Luu has written on this, e.g. https://danluu.com/algorithms-interviews/#appendix-misaligned-incentive-hedgehog-defense-part-3. then again, most people (me included, I expect*) do not work on code that runs at scale.

*at least that was not meant to run at scale 🤞