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It seems like as hardware gets cheaper, software gets more bloated to compensate. Or maybe it’s vice versa. I wonder if there’s a computer science law about th
by Esophagus4 7mo ago
It seems like as hardware gets cheaper, software gets more bloated to compensate. Or maybe it’s vice versa.
I wonder if there’s a computer science law about this. This could be my chance!
- mjmas 7mo agoIs your name Wirth?
- Esophagus4 7mo agoDangit! Always the bridesmaid, never the bride
- daveguy 7mo agoSorry to burst your bubble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law Not exactly the same (it's about power rather than price). But close enough that when you said it, I thought, "oh! there is something like that." There's also more fundamental economics laws at play for supply and demand of a resource / efficiencies at scale / etc. Given our ever increasing demand of compute compared increasing supply (cheaper more powerful compute), I expect the supply will bottleneck before the demand does.
- Esophagus4 7mo agoAh, so you think there’s a point where actually bloat slows because we eventually can’t keep up with demand for compute? I guess this might be happening with LLMs already
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