> [!tldr] Software has increasing expectations of hardware, nullifying the value of increased hardware. There's a wikipedia article called "Andy and Bill's law". It's otherwise known as "The Great Moore's Law Compensator". It's essentially a flavor of [[Parkinson's Law]] ("work expands to fill the time available to do it") that stipulates: > Software will increase in complexity to fill the hardware available to it. This is because developers have less incentive to eke out performance. The average person has more compute power in their pocket than we had when sending a man to the moon - yet it struggles sometimes to open the calculator. ## Andy and Bill? When this phrase was first uttered, Andy Grove was the CEO of Intel (hardware maker) and Bill Gates was the CEO of Microsoft. **** # More ## Source - [[Wikipedia]] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law