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by vitally3643 23 days ago
"Pft, you use an entire IDE inside an electron web browser eating 16GB of memory to rename a function instead of a simple regex? What a waste"
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Firstly, yes, software bloat is a waste.

Secondly, no, it's not even comparable with AI basically delaying electricity decarbonization on entire continent-sized countries, requiring entire coal-fired power stations and stealing all the ram and storage of the planet to build specific and short-lived hardware that will last few years and will be thrown away very fast.