AI optimizing bloated software may reveal how powerful our PCs really are
cephaloform · x · 2026-10-07
An argument circulating on X: once AI starts optimizing the software bloat we've accumulated for years, we may discover our computers are far more powerful than we realized. The quoted example is Spotifast 0.12, a lightweight cross-platform Spotify client that uses just 200MB of RAM and 0% CPU when idle.