Comment by Hendrikto

I get the sentiment, but everybody thinks that, and in aggregate, you get death by a thousand paper cuts.

It’s the same sentiment as “Individuals don’t matter, look at how tiny my contribution is.”. Society is made up of individuals, so everybody has to do their part.

> 9/10 whatever tooling you are using now will be perfectly fine.

It is not though. Software is getting slower faster than hardware is getting quicker. We have computers that are easily 3–4+ orders of magnitudes faster than what we had 40 years ago, yet everything has somehow gotten slower.