Yacine: His Mom Built Banking Software on 128MB RAM in the 90s — Low Compute Can Be a Differentiator
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-18
Yacine MTB points to his mother's experience building banking software and databases in the 1990s with Emacs on a machine with at most 128MB of RAM, arguing that lacking compute is no excuse for failing to produce outsized results in some dimension. In his view, a relative lack of compute can actually be a differentiator rather than a limitation.
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