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lawgimeneztoday at 5:49 AM8 repliesview on HN

Damn, this website is heavy. Found a PDF if anyone - https://cdn.sanity.io/files/4zrzovbb/website/8599749745010a4...


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genthreetoday at 8:50 AM

Vibe-coded websites are the new Frontpage website, being 10x as heavy as one made by hand would be. But 10x as heavy… on top of a modern Web that had already bloated to 100x what was reasonable. Now we wish the only problem were that the html is 10x as large and complex as it needed to be.

The coming years will see the current RAM shortage followed by a war between local AI models and vibe-coded shitware “productivity” software for memory on our devices. Especially fun will be when vibe coding crap hits corporate security software, which is already often so bad it looks more like sabotage than security. Imagine when it gets, from both angles (using models for threat detection; vibe-coded shitware) another large multiplier on its resource use.

ZeWakatoday at 6:00 AM

I could hear my computer fans spin up and down the second I opened and closed it. Wow.

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lancebeettoday at 8:15 AM

This has to be intentional, right? To reassure people that front-end developers still have a job? The data is interesting but the site itself is a complete embarrassment for several reasons.

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celurian92today at 8:20 AM

I work sometimes in frontend and mostly in backend but I cant still comprehend why are we going backwards. shouldnt the websites be so optimized that they should be able to run in normal pc / smartphone rather than s23 is failing to load it. I guess at least bigger companies have that kind of resource for optimization but still not doing it why?

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dirkctoday at 10:49 AM

It's probably vibe coded, but also, it's next.js

sky2224today at 6:38 AM

No kidding, it took my CPU usage from 1% to 55% instantly sheesh

yrds96today at 6:42 AM

Thanks. My galaxy s23 can't handle this website

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sixtyjtoday at 6:05 AM

I was waiting “this page has problems to load” on my iPhone :)