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I have a new laptop with a rtx 5090. Opening any GL context takes more than half a second. There's tons of things that can be optimized and are pretty far from web.
You should profile that, it is probably hitting the registry, the disk and maybe the network. Try turning off wifi and see if it improves.
Much like security, optimization is now a function of token spend—which in some ways means it's a function of care. The reason why software may continue to be slower or less secure than it could be is simply that no one cares enough to invest the time and money in improving it. Off-topic, but Dan, in the name of all that is holy, throw a `max-width: 40em;` on your blog!
A crude example is how, when building a large forum project years ago, I had a checklist I ran on every new http route: authentication, authorization, validation, etc. just because it's trivial to forget one of them. Yet now the LLM can come up with a lintable/verifiable way to ensure every route has the whole kit by construction.
Almost every way I feel like I can provide unique value to the automated AI workflow (aside from deciding what to build at all, and taste) feels like it can be automated by better markdown.
Next time you ask your AI of choice to build an app, please tell them to use plain language without frameworks at all and keep modules to a minimum (ie. node express, ejs and pg, nothing else) and you will see a huuuuge difference
Yep, I feel like there's less of a reason to use frameworks now that you can just have it bash out only the needed stuff on its own. I've been able to make some really really tiny C tools and I'm absolutely loving it.
I somehow managed to avoid the entire SPA scene. I feel so vindicated because I am absolutely zooming with my tried and true Vanilla JS these days. I have tried React, Vue, Angular, and ever just plain TS, and I hate them all.
One of the biggest causes of slowness is just waiting for web requests. The fact that so much software is either online or built using the same stack even if it isn't, puts all that software in this blocked/waiting state constantly while using it. Anyone not in the US feels this even more since so much online is US hosted, 300ms for every little interaction adds up quick. If your software has the affordance of a wait…
It's not very hard to engineer software with these two constraints at the same time: * Must feel very responsive * Network requests can take up to 500ms end to end
One of the biggest causes of slowness is just waiting for web requests. The fact that so much software is either online or built using the same stack even if it isn't, puts all that software in this blocked/waiting state constantly while using it. Anyone not in the US feels this even more since so much online is US hosted, 300ms for every little interaction adds up quick. If your software has the affordance of a wait…
I've been using computers for 4 decades. They have gotten no faster. The nuclear plant computer system we built in 1989 had to present selected screens in 1 second. I don't think any apps I use today can do that.
Next time you ask your AI of choice to build an app, please tell them to use plain language without frameworks at all and keep modules to a minimum (ie. node express, ejs and pg, nothing else) and you will see a huuuuge difference
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You should profile that, it is probably hitting the registry, the disk and maybe the network. Try turning off wifi and see if it improves.
i'm on linux