He learned SIMD for a problem he did not have
ThePrimeagen learns SIMD even though his project does not need it. The point is not to force optimization everywhere, but to recognize the shape of a problem later.
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IRZ Ideas archive, page 5.
Sometimes the best product test is refusing to help
Benjamin Code watches a founder use his product for thirty minutes without rescuing her. Silences, wrong assumptions and lost state suddenly become very concrete bugs.