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> It's not 1990 anymore and my computer has gigabytes, not megabytes of ram.

And these gigabytes get used up really quickly when the LLM goes brrrr. And with this 500% surge in RAM prices, I don't think it's still enough to just buy more.

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To your point, consumer computer memory has stagnated at 8/16 GiB of RAM for a while.
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>> Here's the thing - if you never learned to use $FOO, it is closed off as an option to you forever, even with LLM help.

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> LLMs can write Zenity bash scripts just fine, it's up to the person driving it to ask for that instead.

You don't think we're on the same page here?

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As far as that part goes, you're right. However, someone wanting to make $APP work on raspberry pi 1 level of hardware, and complain to the LLM that electron is so laggy as to be unusable, then I also imagine the LLM is capable of suggestion rewriting $APP with $FOO technology that is the tight low-memory CPU-sipping version of $APP. If TSMC falls and we can't make new hardware, that may have to happen, but until such time that it's forced to, it's not going to.
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