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I'm guessing that we'll see lots of news in 2026 about how companies are hiring developers to help improve the memory efficiency of their software because they just can't get enough servers. Also, the servers they do get will have reduced RAM compared to what they wanted.

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago

Just saw a paper about shifting AI training to nvme drives. But the penality, even with direct from GPU access was high.

If this trend looks to go past a few quarters I would expect new software or features to prioritize it. I'm sure some cool cats in the FOSS world might indenpently be motivated by this as well as part of their contributions.

Honestly from an ecosystem side, it would be cool to see more of the green computing metrics being added to big projects

[–] four@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe something like this will happen for some critical proprietary software, at Cloudflare etc. But I wouldn't expect any benefits for software ran on your personal machine, unless the shortage goes on for 10 years.

RAM is still cheaper than developers, at least until some point

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, and for consumer software, the companies developing the software don't have to pay for the RAM, so unless it becomes a widespread reason to switch away from their software, they do not have to care at all.

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

LoL. (And by that I mean no 😭).

[–] marble@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago

No, plenty of software already runs like shit and didn't get optimised. Until people find "not running like shit" more of a selling point than "has new ai feature" commercial software will do the latter.

Not if the AI bubble pops soon enough

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

I fucking hope so. I shouldn’t need a gig of RAM just to run mIRC with gifs aka Slack.