It has been a very bad bet that hardware will not evolve to exceed the performance requirements of today's software tomorrow, just as it is a bad bet that tomorrow someone will rewrite today's software to be slower.

Eh, but then as hardware evolves, the software will also follow suit. We’ve had an explosion of compute performance and yet software is crawling for the same tasks we did a decade ago.

Better hardware ensures that software that is “finished” today will run at acceptable levels of performance in the future, and nothing more.

I think we won’t see software performance improve until real constraints are put on the teams writing it and leaders who prioritize performance as a North Star for their product roadmap. Good luck selling that to VCs though.