2026-08-23 19:40 UTC
Replies (19)
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@etc@toot.wales 2026-08-23 20:15
@misty@digipres.club or they’ll be optimised for llm consumption instead so you can ask your chatbot to summarise it all for you 🫤
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@iagondiscord@wetdry.world 2026-08-23 21:49
@misty@digipres.club no
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@swiftyshq@critter.cafe 2026-08-23 19:42
@misty@digipres.club lmao, we can only hope, right?
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@janl@narrativ.es 2026-08-23 19:45
@misty@digipres.club yup. Already preparing for it.
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@turaiel@furry.engineer 2026-08-23 19:45
@misty@digipres.club I've had this thought too, but I think they won't, and everything is just going to suck more to use. This will especially be the case as more devs are giving up their autonomy to LLMs.
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@phaedral@beige.party 2026-08-23 20:55
@misty@digipres.club The point is to force reliance on AI. It's the latest evolution of "software as a service." The serfs won't be allowed to own anything, only to rent from the masters.
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@esm@wetdry.world 2026-08-23 20:58
@misty@digipres.club i doubt it, isn't much of the hardware used by employees of major web companies subsidized by the companies anyways? they won't have to feel the impact as much
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@jmelesky@tinylad.social 2026-08-23 21:19
@misty@digipres.club I suspect so, but also not sure if it will break out of the FLOSS sphere. I can definitely see frameworks like Electron becoming less popular (or, alternately, much more optimized), for example, but I’m not sure that MS has the same incentives since they’re doubling down on SaaS. Apple will be an interesting one to watch, since their CPU development was also partly driven by power optimization. I can see them moving into an optimization direction.
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@lavaeolus@fedihum.org 2026-08-23 21:32
@misty@digipres.club 🤞
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@cark@ottawa.place 2026-08-23 21:48
@misty@digipres.club https://www.DownloadMoreRAM.com has been waiting for this moment to shine.
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@faraiwe@mstdn.social 2026-08-23 22:57
@misty@digipres.club we can hope.
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@jplebreton@mastodon.social 2026-08-24 01:32
@misty@digipres.club this is a many-dollar question and i am certainly eager to see how it plays out. one thing i'm unclear on is what the collective breaking point is for websites, apps etc getting so wretchedly slow that average nontechnical people start revolting.
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@AceFuzzLord@pounced-on.me 2026-08-24 01:58
@misty@digipres.club I'll believe they actually attempt to even think about optimizing their stuff when I see it. Got a feeling that companies will just not, take a financial hit, and then use that as an excuse to fire tons of people.
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@barijaona@mastodon.mg 2026-08-24 06:32
@misty@digipres.club I definitely hope so, and it could be a good opportunity for frugal open source projects.
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@DoomHammerNG@mastodon.social 2026-08-24 06:54
@misty@digipres.club the only song I hear is faster and cheaper. More optimized doesn't fit there.
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@redsakana@infosec.exchange 2026-08-24 08:37
@misty@digipres.club I would expect that this will be "solved" with browser-side hacks one way or another, like shipping a ton of stupid shit was "solved" with HTTP/[23] multiplexing/server push. Dayjob customers running largish mainstream sites _sometimes_ have a few people who can think in terms of esoteric low-level stuff like memory having limits, but even those that do are effectively captive to decades of bad business and architectural decisions. Many run on a rotating cast of hourly-rates consultants who can't lift a finger without a ticket approved by multiple layers of management; their sites working at all is largely thanks to a lot of magic implemented by large CDN providers (Cloudflare, Fastly and so on).
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@commonst@social.vivaldi.net 2026-08-24 14:00
@misty@digipres.club I hope so, I have been struggling more and more at work due to this. In my personal life I am just going back to more analogue. I can't complain all the time.
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@torb@hachyderm.io 2026-08-24 19:58
@misty@digipres.club I think webdev discourse around Hypermedia Systems have been laying the groundwork for that to be possible at least. SPAs and the thinking that goes along with it needs to mostly die for this do become widespread though. (Yeah I know technically possible to make SPAs fast, but they pull the average horribly in the wrong direction).
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@giflian@techhub.social 2026-08-30 08:57
@misty@digipres.club I mean, that would be the smart way to go, but there's also the possibility that phone and tablet manufacturers will switch to a leasing model and then app developers won't need to bother optimizing. But I am super cynical. I was told at our former mutual employer a decade ago that I was a "classic DBA" because I cared about ancient things like optimizing IO, disk footprint and query speed. Like a silly person.