[michaelt]

I don't dispute that software is currently bloated - I'm just saying the rate of increase of bloat is now much reduced.

Taking Steam's hardware survey as an example, from 2004 [1] to 2014 [2] RAM increased from 512 MB to 8 GB.

From 2014 to 2024 [3] RAM increased from 8 GB to 16 GB.

Software has bloated by 2x in a decade. But in the preceding decade, it bloated by 16x so keeping it down to a mere 2x is quite restrained in comparison.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20040630214045/http://steampower... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20140228170316/http://store.stea... [3] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

[antisthenes]

> I'm just saying the rate of increase of bloat is now much reduced.

The rate of increase of bloat is now reduced, because hardware advancements rate of increase is also now reduced.

The bloat takes up all the hardware advancements, so of course they'll just be in line with each other.