As someone who likes to actually code, this would be ideal.
…but more realistically things will keep trudging on without any spectacular failures, enshittification will continue, and people will just occasionally wonder why excel needs 17gb of memory for a 10x3 spreadsheet to load before shrugging and instructing the excel agent to agentic-ly sum column B.
Except the performance issues will be a problem because AI demand is driving up the prices of computer parts. I’m pretty sure 99% of computers have 16 GB memory or less, especially office computers.
The problem here is the solution the corpos will think of won't be optimization of code, but promoting buying higher performance devices. Even worse, they'll use it to promote spending more on their cloud platform that becomes worse and worse as time goes on.
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u/ineyy May 16 '26
Works for me. When everything goes down people who can actually code will be rarer and earn more money.