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Post #7531, on Dec 10, 2025 in TG
Apple's 8GB RAM Strategy Accidentally Created Better Optimized Software
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A screenshot from X (formerly Twitter) showing a post by Vadim Yuryev (@VadimYuryev) with a hot take: 'this is why Apple kept their base Macs at 8GB base RAM for so long. Same thing for iPhone. Forced app developers to hyper-optimize for many years, leading to a leg up on Apple's competition.' This is a quote-tweet of ZooL (@ZooL_Smith) who wrote: 'The RAM shortage might be a good thing actually. Maybe developers will stop using inefficient techs and start to code properly since their garbo webapp won't run on consumer hardware.' The post has 50 comments, 81 retweets, 2.5K likes, and 134K views. The interface shows Cyrillic text at the top, indicating a Russian-language Twitter/X client
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Apple didn't ship 8GB Macs out of greed -- they shipped them as a distributed linter for memory leaks. The real Instruments was the constraints we shipped along the way
plot twist: ai was generating shit code all along to get human devs fired on a RAM shortage arc, so they get replaced with llms and the skynet begins Comment deleted
This post comments were just cleaned from new generation of spam bots Take care! Comment deleted
are those actually bots or just burner accounts Comment deleted
Who knows Comment deleted
bots Comment deleted
Yeah same thing there Comment deleted
Literally just had this happen in chat here Comment deleted
That’s why I left a screenshot So chat is ready to what’s gonna happen next… If they will continue I will have to make a bot with some task / captcha to do I guess Comment deleted
I know of a bot already that has this, as well as a separate bot by same developer for getting rid of deleted accounts Comment deleted
Hot take apple is just retarded and developers use more than 8gb ram and it was and is a huge bottleneck Comment deleted
Expectation: ☝️ Reality: AI was trained on populistic recommendations like "Compiler will optimize!" and "Premature optimization is the root of all evil!" (as if those "gurus" ever refactored their code w.r.t. optimization). Comment deleted
My MBP has a gazillion Gb of RAM but is still a laggy, buggy, overheated slow piece of crap. The reason? So called macOS "upgrades", each introducing new background services that I never use, but that keep running all the time. Comment deleted
What? You either have non-ARM cpu that all sucks due to too much heat from intels cpu that Mac’s system is too weak to dissipate or you’re doing something wrong Mine m1 mbp with 16bg ram from 2021 still runs great Comment deleted
Yes, it has an Intel CPU. Does this justify its enshittification? Comment deleted
16 bibagyte Comment deleted
8Gb for the hyper-optimized code. Mother of Neumann... Comment deleted
By far the worst tweet I've seen in my whole god damn life Comment deleted
Well that's impressively stupid. Right up there with 8GB of VRAM is plenty for a new GPU. Comment deleted
web apps are hardware agnostic, so that's bs and hyper-optimize may not be a bad idea… didn't you notice that even the simplest (compiled) apps nowadays are already consuming a few MBs while some time ago it was KBs? Comment deleted
Kinda does not matter few mb vs few kb, since process stacks, heaps and buffers are larger, also who cares about just another mb? Comment deleted
Best is to be hw agnostic AND native... Like that wasm os Comment deleted
I actually believe that this whole ram shortage serves two purposes. 1) to buy out everything for ai. 2) move everyone to cloud. like, why buy some beefy pc when you can just subscribe for cloud something and do whatever you want? there is already a significant push for cloud gaming, streaming of everything. and I expect it to be even more prevalent later when "we have so much more nice powerful datacenters" and based on that, I would expect AAA games to become even more wild when it comes to resource consumption. something like "you will own nothing and be happy" type shit Comment deleted
this one sounds oddly possible Comment deleted
given tech literacy of average user - inevitable Comment deleted
yeah, also this Comment deleted
well this stinks Comment deleted
I'm sorry, are you one of Ubisoft chiefs with their "gamers needs to feel comfortable not owning their games after buying them" crap? 😂 Comment deleted
yeah, were referencing exactly that. but I really don't want that to happen, and I hate this funny direction we as a society are heading Comment deleted