Comment by illiac786
4 days ago
> A commit born from "Claude, please make the installer look sick as fuck with loading bars and stuff" will always be preferred by the developers over a commit that reverts such a change for a 10 MB drop in memory use.
Not my experience. YMMV
> I had always imagined that the advent of LLMs developing human-level coding abilities, combined with the high hardware prices as a result of it, would act as a forcing function to inspire a new generation of ultra-performant, bloat-free open software.
I mean, faster and better hardware has never resulted in more efficient software, I really didn’t expect it to be any different here.
>faster and better hardware has never resulted in more efficient software, I really didn’t expect it to be any different here.
I agree with this.
By "high hardware prices", I am implying that we are not getting faster and better hardware.
NVidia halted 5090 production yesterday. As a consumer, where can I buy this faster and better hardware you speak of?
Sorry, my comparison is not perfect.
I was comparing faster hardware (Wirth's law) with better LLM, which is actually more the Jevon’s paradox.
My point was along the line of: Making something easier has never caused that something to be executed more efficiently.