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Some software bloat is OK

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50 points senfiaj | 1 comments | 04 Nov 25 08:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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SurceBeats ◴[04 Nov 25 10:03 UTC] No.45809221[source]▶
The article is kind of right about legitimate bloat, but "premature optimization is evil" has become an excuse to stop thinking about efficiency entirely. When we choose Electron for a simple app or pull in 200 dependencies for basic tasks, we're not being pragmatic, we're creating complexity debt that often takes more time to debug than writing leaner code would have. But somehow here we are, so...
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1. 0xEF ◴[04 Nov 25 10:11 UTC] No.45809272[source]▶
Thinking is hard, so any product that gives people an excuse to stop doing it will do quite well, even if it creates more inconveniences like framework bloat or dependency rot. This is why shoehorning AI into everything is so wildly successful; it gives people the okay to stop thinking.