Comment by TacticalCoder

> But I really wonder whether we've lost something by not making more of an effort to use resources more frugally.

On the desktop we definitely lost responsiveness. Many webpages, even on the speediest, fatest, computer of them all are dog slow compared to what they should be.

Now some pages are fine but the amount of pigs out there is just plain insane.

I like my desktop to be lean and ultra low latency: I'll have tens of windows (including several browsers) and it's super snappy. Switching from one virtual workspace to another is too quick to see what's happening (it take milliseconds and I do it with a keyboard shortcut: reaching for the mouse is a waste of time).

I know what it means to have a system that feels like it's responding instantly as I do have such a system... Except when I browse the web!

And it's really only some (well, a lot of) sites: people who know what they're doing still come up with amazingly fast websites. But it's the turds: those shipping every package under the sun and calling thousands of micro-services, wasting all the memory available because they know jack shit about computer science, that make the Web a painful experience.

And although I use LLMs daily, I see a big overlap between those having the mindset required to produce such turds and those thinking LLMs are already perfectly fine today to replace devs, so I'm not exactly thrilled about the immediate future of the web.

P.S: before playing the apologists for such turd-sites, remember you're commenting on a very lean website. So there's that.