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Rising memory prices driven by AI datacenter demand are exposing decades of software bloat. Modern applications consume orders of magnitude more RAM than their predecessors without proportional functionality gains. Windows Task Manager now uses 70 MB versus 85 KB originally. The memory shortage presents an opportunity to rethink development practices, prioritize efficiency over convenience, and reward compact code. Like the 1970s fuel crisis that drove energy efficiency, today's memory crunch could finally incentivize developers to eliminate wasteful resource consumption.

Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat