so much has changed since the 1990s, especially with the breaking down of software projects into smaller, interoperable components (object oriented programming) that many developers never have to grapple with hardware limitations. we can just throw some more memory at a machine and be done with it.
but #AI isn’t your sundry database/search/CMS/calculator. it’s supposed to be all of that and more.
this is why i felt the techbro hype was just wrong: techbro LLMs are wasteful & innefficient… 🧵