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Learn/Tag: diminishing-returns

Lessons tagged “diminishing-returns”

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Optimization has diminishing returns

Each improvement gets harder and smaller — know when further optimization is not worth the cost.

Know when to stop optimizing

The optimal amount of optimization is not infinite — there is a point where you should stop and move on.

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