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Every fast write moves work somewhere else

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/
15•shayonj•1h ago

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cpard•50m ago
When I saw the title the first thing I thought of was schema on read versus schema on right when in data platforms.

You can make writes faster and part of that is by not dealing with schema resolution but you do push the work somewhere else there too.

I guess the same principles apply on many different levels, from when you write to the file system up to how you deal with conflicted data types during data ingestion.

rtibbles•14m ago
The first thing I thought when seeing the title was "writing" with LLMs - writing quickly can easily just move the work onto your readers!

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