I find any and all claims like this ridiculous from a company who can't build a terminal application that uses less than a gigabyte of RAM.
Frankly, I love efficiency too, but I've hard to learn the hard way that what the market wants is features. Or at the very least, the executive team wants that.
I'm using the internal Google tools and it's helping me write code much faster too, but it still takes time. I could make the CLI tool I work on faster, but no one cares except the end users, and their minor concerns have no impact on our internal politics.
At the end of the day you have to do what you're paid to do, unfortunately.
you are confirming their point even as you contradict the specifics
It’s possible that it doesn’t play well with JS garbage collection, since it recreates the whole UI structure for every frame (which tends to not to be an issue in the languages immediate-mode is usually employed).
But yes it’s a bit more akin to game renderings than web rendering. Which can be totally fine if done well.
In 1GB I could probably fit all the buffers to double-buffer all the TUIs in a whole country. Well, maybe not. But it's likely not that far off.
At least that is what Moonlight client claims.
All those CPU to render this effect
(to be read with the Unreal Tournament announcer voices, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwxjYFqP35A )
But I obviously don't know for sure.
If so, I think it would be in the spirit of HN to discuss the subject matter of the blogpost (increasingly autonomous coding towards the end goal of RSI) as if the blog post was indeed from OpenAI. OpenAI is, by all accounts, going through a very similar process anyways.
They have different teams for different departments with different type of people.
So the team or teams responsible for writing the terminal application are different people than the researchers doing the learning.
This can lead to dimentral quality aspects.
If you want to pollute your own priors with weird artificial litmus tests, it's a free country, but the artificial world-model you build in your head does not affect the real world around you.