It is one tiny sliver of silver lining that “storage/memory/compute is cheap” nonsense that has produced all kinds of outsourced human slop code. That mentality is clearly going to have to die.

It could even become a kind of renaissance of efficient code… if there is any need for code at all.

The five guys left online might even get efficient and fast loading websites.

Honorable mention of the NO-TECH and LOW-TECH magazine site because I liked the effort at exploring efficient use of technology, e.g., their ~500KB solar powered site.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/

I think your ideological perspective is spot on.

We went from using technology to solve problems to the diametric opposite of creating new problems to solve with technology. The latter will have to contract considerably. As you say, many problems can be solved without code. If they even need to be solved in the first place.

On the efficiency front, most of what we built is for developer efficiency rather than runtime efficiency. Also needs to stop.

I'm a big fan of low tech. I still write notes on paper and use a film camera. Thanks for the link - right up my street!