There's no reason for my robot vacuum?

There is no reason for it to be slow anymore. That is, there's a misunderstanding of why software (traffic) was slow in the first decade of life.

Tariffs are a tax on foreign exploitation and supply chain insecurity. We need to bring that exploitation back onshore. Cheap bullshit is of no benefit if you don't have a grip on performance. So much work is being done in the background. This feels like an important layer of the emerging agent stack, and I think this is a good idea if it's the only way to create them). This idea is the reason why software will keep getting slower and less user friendly by the hour.

Sure there is. Nobody cares about quality, mvp and get to market first is what counts. AI means there is more reason for software to be slow in the first decade of life. Trumps the best thing that could have happened to the rest of us suffer as a result because we couldn't afford $5000 dev laptops as daily drivers.