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Not quite an idiom, but one of the senior managers at work keeps talking about Moore's Law in the context of AI stuff like it's some kind of fundamental law of the universe that any given technology will double in capability every 2 years
wp:Wirth's law
Kinda wild how a web pages still take several seconds to load. I remember first hearing about multi-megabyte per second internet and assumed pages will load instantly. Now a webpage is so large it takes compiled languages several seconds to parse them.
Thank you for introducing me to Wirth's Law. I'll be citing that whenever I write code that takes forever to run even on powerful compute 🤣
I'm totally guilty too. I'll be right next to you in that circle of hell reserved for "SWEs who failed to optimize their code."
Ugh I would struggle to keep a straight face.
Yeah this is a common misunderstanding I've had to clarify to people as well, even people who work in tech. I support only using "Law" for things that are scientifically actually laws. I don't even like to use it as a joke (Murphy's Law) because, unbelievably, some people really do take that to be a law of the universe too.
Oh god, the cringe techno-optimist shit where you believe every kind of hype at once. The cream does not rise to the top.