> Mechanical sympathy is an important passive perk for software architects to cut down the number of reworks down the line
We might be talking on different levels but when it comes to, on an opposite end of 'Should I use SIMD'... a databases a level of mechanical sympathy at a 'base' level is still important. e.x. row-by-row updates vs batching or bad logic where a 21k entry in clause forgot about unicode rules on columns and breaks an index [0]... is still super important.
[0] - That one is real, thanks lazy bodyshop having their people use copilot and yet, we get the same billable hours, nothing is done faster, and management is too stupid to pay attention...
We might be talking on different levels but when it comes to, on an opposite end of 'Should I use SIMD'... a databases a level of mechanical sympathy at a 'base' level is still important. e.x. row-by-row updates vs batching or bad logic where a 21k entry in clause forgot about unicode rules on columns and breaks an index [0]... is still super important.
[0] - That one is real, thanks lazy bodyshop having their people use copilot and yet, we get the same billable hours, nothing is done faster, and management is too stupid to pay attention...