[toephu2]

I have iterm2 open right now with Claude in a long session and it's only using 500MB of memory.

[pizlonator]

Only 500MB!

you are confirming their point even as you contradict the specifics

[z3c0]

And highlighting a disconnect in the developer community. Some of us are okay with unnecessary overhead for quick results. I always felt gross dealing with Electron apps, but they're popular for a reason.

[deathanatos]

But each day now that overhead becomes more costly as AI drives up the very cost per byte of RAM.

[verdverm]

they make one of those electron apps too

[toephu2]

Followup: I closed out Claude completely, iterm2 completely. Reopened iterm2, and it appears iterm2 is using about 500MB of memory. So this has nothing to do with Claude Code CLI.

[ChrisLTD]

Yeah. Bonkers considering the brain of the application isn’t even on your device.