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asdfman123yesterday at 8:55 PM1 replyview on HN

Developers can develop leaner applications, but they're usually not incentivized to.

Frankly, I love efficiency too, but I've hard to learn the hard way that what the market wants is features. Or at the very least, the executive team wants that.


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j2kunyesterday at 8:58 PM

Their whole argument is that AI's added efficiency means they don't need to set aside valuable human time anymore. Why can't they just point Claude at Claude Code and ask it to reduce memory usage by 90%?