One good thing may come out of this AI-driven RAM crunch. It might be the kick in the behind that gets developers to give up complacency about library and framework bloat (*cough* Electron), reverse Wirth's law, and start caring about their applications' memory footprint.
Richard Speed of The Register compared skyrocketing DRAM prices to the 1970s oil crisis. Automakers had to innovate by making their vehicles more fuel-efficient.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/memory_software_opinion/
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