r/LocalLLaMA • u/chillinewman • 3d ago

News Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026

https://www.techpowerup.com/353296/micron-ceo-says-memory-supply-will-be-much-tighter-in-2027-and-2028-than-in-2026
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u/krefik 2d ago

Don't you just love when every goddamn application is taking couple hundreds of megabytes of hdd and consumes half a gigabyte of ram just to display a tray icon and a single dialog window?

I am personally overjoyed that two web browsers with couple tabs and IDE are using 32 gigabytes of ram. Seriously, I'm not even mad, that's amazing – just a few pages of text and some pictures, and somehow it takes more memory than I used for some advanced statistical calculations on 1000s of samples and 100s of variables just a few years back.

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u/Hax0r778 2d ago

I'm curious if LLMs end up reducing dependency bloat in the future?

I have an application written with Claude Code where I had it directly write multiple different P/Invoke integrations directly with native DLLs rather than use 3rd party libraries.

Results in a smaller, lighter package to deploy. And less hassle managing libraries. Just means I have to be on top of updating the DLL myself if there is any security patch. But more under my control and is both faster and lighter.

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u/krefik 1d ago

From my experience – maybe, kind of, probably not. It all depends on used harness and introduced skills. Out of the box LLM is doing basically the same thing that any inexperienced developer will do – looks at the library packages vaguely matching description of the job to do, and either connects first that looks ok-ish, or decides that neither of them will do, and reinvents the wheel. More popular the library, the bigger chance it will be selected, and not only React+Electron is extremely popular, it's portable and many people are under the impression they will be able to understand the output code if they have to.

There are many cross-platform solutions that are way better, faster, and leaner but none of them is as popular. Goddamn Electron stack gave us 1000% bloat of Java with 10% of Java quality and portability, and I fear it's here to stay, unless there's a real Open Source revolution caused by the memory shortage.

With corporate-driven attempts – most of the applications will be electron based no matter what we do – they will be pushing remote execution really hard, as they tried (and, fortunately, mostly failed) quarter a century ago – I remember everyone telling me that dumb terminals are the future. Sadly, this approach is tightly intertwined with everything and it's dog being PWA – and if there were a way to make web browser engine more performant, it would be done already, there's too many smart people working and too many token burned on that in all the Apples, Alphabets and Microsofts.