Maybe the good thing to come out of the RAM crisis is that engineers will care about memory usage again lol.
About time, I'm tired of fighting. Free the RAM!
The bad thing here is that modding discord will become significantly harder and might have been their original intention here.
The good thing is AI enabling web developers to write native apps.
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Also even without the RAM crisis, the main limitations (time) to optimizing software are gone. If you want to do something impactful, but don't have any good ideas: Take an existing website or application and build an optimized version of it. If you aren't sure where to start, build an isolated workflow out of an existing app or site you like, have the LLM benchmark it, then ask it to make it use 10x less ram / run 10x faster. Ask about what tools it can use to measure, what benchmarks it can come up with to repeatedly test it, how it can automate workflows in a measurable way. Then turn those into tools or specs you can share along with your work.