Dead Code
Harvester of Slow (with Varun Gandhi)
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On this Dead Code episode, Jared talks with Varun Gandhi, a Databricks engineer who works on Git performance for the company's monorepo. The topic is Varun's reply to Dan Luu's post "There's No Reason for Software to Be Slow Anymore," which argues that LLMs have made performance work cheap. Varun agrees the cost of learning and applying advanced techniques has dropped. His objection is that LLMs…