Something I routinely am in awe about is the compute amplification every commit has today vs. 20 years ago, at least personally. Back then, my personal computer was only non-idle when I was working locally. I ran tests locally. When I pushed, there was no CI. The tests themselves were minimal maturity (simple unit tests, some e2e). Today when I push, CI exists. It fans out to 200+ jobs across macOS, Linux, and Windows that take ~20 minutes to complete in totality. A successful CI triggers ~8 beefy machines for tip releases. Tip releases trigger Apple notarization machines. Simultaneously, I have dedicated machines running 24/7 doing fuzz testing at basically 100% CPU constantly. Locally, my computer is using CPU much more of the day due to background agents. My average CPU utilization on my M4 Max overnight the last 7 days was over 20%. "Low" but before my average would've been 0% (deep sleep)! Plus, those agents are commanding a ton of GPU utilization elsewhere. I'm not making any judgement here of whether this is good or bad, because I think there are both good elements and bad elements. Simply that its quite astonishing how much compute my daily work amplifies in 2026 vs. 2006.