Yesterday I was working on some video editing tools to create a demo from screen recordings. I started with Gifox, recorded a 5 min video and then started cutting it in their UI (small things like remove these 5 seconds from here, etc). Everytime I performed an action, the spinner would start and take 10-30 seconds to complete. This was on a 36gb M3 mbp with almost nothing else running. It got so unusable and it slowed down my machine so much that I had to force kill the app, and that did nto work, I had to restart the machine.

Then I tried in iMovie. I tried importing the raw gifs. It would hang everytime and I had to restart it. So I had to export .mov directly from Gifox.

It worked great on iMovie, until I needed to speed up or slow down some clips. I noticed on the first operation, it would spin for about 3s, on the second, 5s, on the third, 10s, and by the 6th operation it would either spin for 1min or not stop at all. The machine started getting flow, iMovie was using 22.4gb of my 36gb machine. Had to also force quit iMovie several times. A task that should have taken 30-60min tops, took 5h.

Memory was definitely leaking somewhere, and in different application with completely different engineering budgets. The product was there, people were paying for it, the software was not delivering, which means it was costing customers time and money, meaning people were overpaying for it. This is not a thing product can solve. Programming is absolutelly the hardest part sometimes.

You could say throw more AI at it, and MSFT tried, how's that going for them with all the weird product decisions and bugs and apologies?