At work we just got a quote to upgrade a couple servers, original price a few years ago was ~ $150k. Essentially the same hardware, just newer, is now quoted at ~ $450k.

We decided to just keep our current hardware for now and extend a support contract for ~ normal price.

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pilgrim0 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I wonder how long these shortages have to last until software developers are required to be mindful of RAM usage like in the decades before,

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zx8080 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Probably not. AI code generation will not allow to use memory efficiently.

	▲	Fabricio20 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Quite the opposite i'd wager. Now that AI can figure everything out we can have the AIs do the performance work. Performance work alot of the times also went against developer experience in terms of languages/patterns and such. AI doesn't need to care about DevEx which might also show a shift towards more memory efficient languages and patterns. Only time will tell though.