Quoting Bryan Cantrill — Simon Willison

Work costs nothing to an LLM, and LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone’s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage.

Until recently, thanks to rising chip prices, human developers were too lazy to optimize their software stacks, leading to bloated software requiring much more memory than necessary to run. Now there is an incentive to rethink how they allocate development time, but it will probably be delegated to LLMs… we’re doomed.