#the constraints of yesteryear really did make programmers evolve to use every part of the disk space and hardware

[pasta-is-magnificent]

Its the "add more lanes" problem but with data storage and processing power.

Its very much a conundrum, more power and storage enables breaching limits of what once was impossible but it also encourages wasteful programming and allows some developers to just let their used disk space baloon past 100gb

we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better