
Why Your Obsession with Code Optimization is Like Tuning a Ferrari to Grocery Shop
Picture this: You’re in a code review, casually sipping your fourth coffee of the morning, when someone drops this gem: “Why use a list comprehension here? Dictionary lookups are O(1)!” Meanwhile, the method in question handles three items max. Congratulations - you’ve just witnessed premature optimization in its natural habitat. The High Cost of Early Optimization Let’s start with a horror story you might recognize: # The "Optimized" Approach results = [] for i in range(0, len(data), 1): temp = process(data[i]) results....