[nicce]

Not only Codex, but I can't leave ChatGPT app in macOS open for few hours, because it will consume 60 gigabytes of RAM over time and crashes all the apps.

Mindboggling. Or can't use Google's AI Studio in browser because it takes 100% CPU.

Need to write own app for everything???

[nbaksalyar]

It's not just Google AI Studio, it's also Google proper. Just one search result page consumes gigabytes of RAM. How did this happen? I've switched to DDG and never looked back.

[porridgeraisin]

the damn chat.openai.com webapp lags a lot as well on long chats, typing takes so long.

[rsfern]

In my experience the input field lags on short chats too, sometimes in the middle of writing the second or third prompt. Are they running some kind of prospective evaluation or something?

[nicce]

When you are writing completely new prompt - it sends every character to server when writing and tries to make suggestions based on that.

And keeps doing it in intervals in /prepare endpoint, during each prompt.

So if you are working with something sensitive - don't write it to browser directly and edit it there.

[porridgeraisin]

But then why does it become dog slow when the chat becomes bigger?

[lelandfe]

I believe this is because they don’t lazyload the document.

The entire conversation sits in the DOM.

[porridgeraisin]

Yeah - is such a large dom of essentially text expected to be that slow?

For what it's worth I use a small script that essentially deletes old chat messages DOM nodes which significantly speeds it up.

[lelandfe]

Yes, because under the hood it’s much more than just text. It’s not hard to imagine dozens if not hundreds of elements are contained within each prompt+reply pair.

I bet there’s also some React performance issues involved here too

There are some real table stakes FE perf issues with the ChatGPT site

[veber-alex]

ChatGPT works ok for me but Whatsapp consumes 1000% cpu after the mac wakes up after sleep.

I swear a few years ago shit like this didn't happen on macOS.

[coldtea]

A few years ago vibe-coded crap apps like that didn't exist on macOS.

[LtWorf]

Well seems osx has a terrible oom killer.

[mannanj]

Plot twist: the companies are unethically (blaming it on AI slop code) harvesting your GPU and CPU resources to generate tokens for their products consumers in a decentralized fashion. Not unlike those old monero or other crypto spyware miners.