[gct]

No wonder software is so slow today when we're this profligate. "let's run four AIs and ignore 3/4 of them!" ugh.

[bitpush]

There's trade-offs all layers of the stack

Your cpu is decoding instructions optimistically (and sometimes even executing)

Your app is caching results just in case

The edge server has stuff stashed for you (and others..)

The list goes on and on...