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by pizlonator 7 days ago
Only 500MB!

you are confirming their point even as you contradict the specifics
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z3c0 7 days ago
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.
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deathanatos 7 days ago
But each day now that overhead becomes more costly as AI drives up the very cost per byte of RAM.
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verdverm 7 days ago
they make one of those electron apps too
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toephu2 6 days ago
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.
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ChrisLTD 7 days ago
Yeah. Bonkers considering the brain of the application isn’t even on your device.
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