Yeah. Bonkers considering the brain of the application isn’t even on your device.

And highlighting a disconnect in the developer community. Some of us are okay with unnecessary overhead for quick results. I always felt gross dealing with Electron apps, but they're popular for a reason.

For each LLM interaction they likely have bunch of thoughts traces, tool calls, etc, which don't go to context, but still can be retrieved.

But I obviously don't know for sure.

This kind of immediate-mode rendering is quite standard for TUIs. Although immediate-mode rendering tends to be significantly simpler and use less memory than retained-mode rendering, at the cost of some redundant computation. So I am not sure if this is the reason for the bloat.

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.

How on earth are you spending more than 50us on a UI like this from start to finish? What the actual hell? 11ms to construct a scenegraph of this complexity? I don't even know what to say to that.

Do game engines constantly have buffer issues?

I sorta remember Quake console running on an 486dx2 ..

Frankly that's an insult to gamedev. Literally every game engine I can think of could do better. Probably even Unreal Engine could do better.

You can do that. But I'm telling you, in tech (and enterprise shops I've worked at too) they don't care.

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.

I checked out your agent and it looks pretty well designed. Congrats on starting to share it with others!

One thing I noticed: "Your Tools: Aether agents get tools exclusively via MCP servers." "...Aether ships with 1st-party MCPs for file system operations..."

Can you share your thoughts on why you decided to use MCP as the core tool abstraction? I have heard many decry MCP as being context-wasteful. Is this not the case with your agent?