• smeg@feddit.uk
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    17 hours ago

    The reason for the reduction is, of course, the surging price of memory.

    Maybe this will finally force lazy developers to optimise their programs a bit more. For decades we’ve had computers getting significantly faster every year so you didn’t need to bother optimising your code for lower resources.

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      11 hours ago

      Nope, sorry. They’re slopping everything with AI now so it has seven different subroutines that all do the same thing and are undocumented, and three different libraries have been imported with overlapping functionality.

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        5 hours ago

        I reviewed a PR the other day that added new test cases and was +40k LOC. It was the same file copy/pasted >400 times with a few strings changed each time. Guess what “super intelligence” wrote it

      • smeg@feddit.uk
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        8 hours ago

        Yeah but if nobody can run their rubbish they won’t survive for long