Damn, this website is heavy. Found a PDF if anyone - https://cdn.sanity.io/files/4zrzovbb/website/8599749745010a4...

genthree 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Vibe-coded websites are the new Frontpage website, being 10x as heavy as one made by hand would be. But 10x as heavy… on top of a modern Web that had already bloated to 100x what was reasonable. Now we wish the only problem were that the html is 10x as large and complex as it needed to be.

The coming years will see the current RAM shortage followed by a war between local AI models and vibe-coded shitware “productivity” software for memory on our devices. Especially fun will be when vibe coding crap hits corporate security software, which is already often so bad it looks more like sabotage than security. Imagine when it gets, from both angles (using models for threat detection; vibe-coded shitware) another large multiplier on its resource use.

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dirkc 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's probably vibe coded, but also, it's next.js

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ZeWaka 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I could hear my computer fans spin up and down the second I opened and closed it. Wow.

	▲	guitarlimeo 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Came here to say the same thing. The company with the best coding model can't code an optimized infographic?

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lancebeet 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This has to be intentional, right? To reassure people that front-end developers still have a job? The data is interesting but the site itself is a complete embarrassment for several reasons.

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celurian92 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I work sometimes in frontend and mostly in backend but I cant still comprehend why are we going backwards. shouldnt the websites be so optimized that they should be able to run in normal pc / smartphone rather than s23 is failing to load it. I guess at least bigger companies have that kind of resource for optimization but still not doing it why?

	▲	duskdozer 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Any hardware gains and more are used up by stuffing in additional telemetry, ad/engagement scripts, and animations. Devs have grown up on "unused RAM is wasted RAM," work on the latest high-spec Macs, and get incentivized by higher-ups demanding things be ever "modernized" and not to waste time on optimization, which they see as annoying nerd stuff. But even that doesn't explain everything I guess, because I still see a lot of these things in open source projects.

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sky2224 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No kidding, it took my CPU usage from 1% to 55% instantly sheesh

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yrds96 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thanks. My galaxy s23 can't handle this website

	▲	Lionga an hour ago \| parent [-]
		a cpu about 1000x as strong as need to beat any human at chess, can't show a simple vibe coded website...

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sixtyj 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I was waiting “this page has problems to load” on my iPhone :)