alt Hacker NewsThe trillions-dollars question is how come software itself doesn't get improved by (at least) an order of magnitude, if not more.
More to the point, the price of RAM that has gone berserk. Easy solution, let's then make our OSes, browsers and almost all the relevant software that we use day to day an order a magnitude more nimble, for example if a Chrome instance now eats 1-2GB of memory then make it eat at most 100-200MBs of said memory while doing the exact same things (if not more). The much lauded AI revolution in code-writing hasn't created that, not sure if it will ever do, it will just add slop after slop after slop, in fact it wouldn't surprise me if the memory requirements for something like Chrome won't increase as a result of the recent vibe-coding mania.
But by this point the AI zealots are already running the asylum, so nothing to be done.
> The trillions-dollars question is how come software itself doesn't get improved by (at least) an order of magnitude, if not more.
The sad thing is those using AI to code (and I certainly do) don't realize they're producing more but just more of the same turds they were already producing.
And in addition to that they're producing turds nobody gives a shit about (ah!).
Where, indeed, are the both less memory-hungry, less CPU-intensive and more secure rewrites of the pigs we work with on a daily basis?
Nowhere to be seen.
Because the AI zealots are way too busy adding crap features over crap features.