A lot of software projects don't make money directly. Our company makes money. This would have cost thousands of dollars paid to a contractor previously with unclear results so yes it's 100% justified.
You're citing a paper that does not reproduce in the year 2026 and a guy who built a following on doom&gloom projections with zero actual verifiable sources and demanding proof. SMH
Here is a TCP simulator I built using Fable 5 to reproduce BBR paper results: https://ccsim.apoxy.dev It took it ~4 hours to bang out initial version which was slightly broken then it took me another day to fix some bugs. A year ago this would take me more than a month of dedicated work, probably longer. A 50x productivity boost on pure coding tasks easily.
Try pointing Fable 5 to almost any CS paper - it can reproduce results in mere hours using maybe couple hundred bucks in retail token prices. This has been obvious to anyone caring to spent even just 30 mins for months now and the writing has been on the wall for more than a year.
"do not fool yourself" proceeds to fool himself... if you are honest about your bias that's still fooling yourself if your conclusions are just demonstrably wrong.
A year isnt very long considering sums involved here. At a certain hyperscaler a full dc build out took 2-3 years but we heard that aws did that in a year all in. And also musk proved you can do it literally over holiday break but you don’t have to go that extreme - just dont let cya pmcs do it
Everyone says support but great support requires culture of excellence and customer obsession and that were the first things to go when those zirp-era scaleups went on hiring sprees
I know a few who are really feeling the pressure from customers now being able to vibe code part or their product and also their cloud bill is about to explode because hardware prices are through the roof
The context is AI made some knowledge work less cushy so now some folks are trying to point out random imaginary flaws (e.g TP or "water usage") when they're not busy trying to convince everyone AI doesn't work.
If it's http2 then Go's stdlib is pretty unoptimized to say the least. Huffman decoder is really cache unfriendly (pointer chasing) and I think allocation heavy too. Same probably goes for http1 and http3.
I dont think this comparison really works. Firefighter would be goalie or a defender and like you said in sports they are less appreciated/compensated for a simple reason - usually they don’t bring in views. There are exceptions ofc like Pippen or Seaman