Focus on Awareness Over Optimization

The key insight is that awareness is crucial in software development as it can lead to understanding inefficiencies in code without the need for complex optimization techniques. The speaker emphasizes that while optimization is challenging and time-consuming, increasing awareness of how CPUs and GPUs work can help individuals identify simple ways to enhance their code's speed without necessarily optimizing it. The speaker highlights the current difficulty in optimization and the lack of attention towards it in the industry compared to the more achievable goal of increasing awareness in developers.