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With LLMs there is no real dev velocity penalty of using high perf. langs like say Rust. A pair of 192 Core AMD EPYC boxes will have enough headroom for 99.9% of projects.
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That’ll be true for the 0.1% of project that were limited by the speed of their programming language. For the other 99.9% of projects their vibe coded rust can fly and their database, network, or raw computation will still be the bottleneck.

(Percentages cited above are tongue-in-cheek, actual numbers are probably different)


sqlite when used properly can be pushed pretty far. Few biz apps are raw compute limited



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