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Comment by SirMaster

10 hours ago

What happens if you keep asking AI to rewrite it to use less and less resources?

just be aware of the exact prompt:

"memory usage is important": creates a 1TB binary

"take multiple steps": uses so much power, extreme global warming, it will just print "hot"

"think outside of the box": it will enslave you so you will not care about weather

It’s actually pretty good at this if you have some very specific constraints and objective.

  • I find I get great results from explicitly asking an LLM to write tests which profile memory and cpu usage. Then ask it to optimise to improve those metrics.

  • And a way for it to get actual measurable results / feedback loop, which is apparently quite tricky even for humans to get.

tbh, it probably works. I'm vibe-coding a thing and just told it to figure out why it runs so slow: put in some optimizations. It ran some tests and stopped loading an entire-something at opening because there's no value to doing that.

It does a pretty good job being put into a loop of "try to optimize for X" then "test and audit your code" then repeat.