Computers got 15x faster, yet somehow Electron apps still take 3 seconds to open and Chrome still eats RAM like it's a competitive sport. The cruel irony? All that extra computing power just means devs can pile on more frameworks, dependencies, and bloated abstractions until your M2 MacBook feels like a 2010 netbook running Crysis.
Jevons Paradox is an economics concept: when you make something more efficient, people just use MORE of it, canceling out the gains. In our case, faster hardware just gave us permission to write slower software. Why optimize when you can just tell users to "upgrade their machine"?
Shoutout to the devs still writing tight, efficient code while the rest of us ship a 300MB React app to display a todo list.
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