That's the secret, everyone who's done nasty tricks have become donors of tricks to be used.

That said, modern machines have enough oomph that tricks of that kind haven't really been the major contributions on the table for the past 25 years (sure, there's some tricks with PS2 VU's/memory, register swaps,etc but they're small in comparison to the total product sizes).

idk about that. people will always find a way of working together to solve problems. that "solving" the AI era means "pulling the lever on the claude machine" is sad, I agree