[TrackerFF]

Let's see.

A) Programmers will get their shit together and start shipping lean software.

OR

B) New laptops will become neutered thin clients, and all the heavy lifting will be done by cloud service providers.

Which one seems more likely?

[DharmaPolice]

B would require a fairly large shift in approach since currently the primary way we interact with the cloud is via browsers which are probably the biggest single users of client memory currently.

[blackoil]

1. Most Web clients aren't light weight.

2. People will buy laptop with low RAM because that's only what they can afford (hopefully upgradable).

3. They'll crib Chrome being slow, and will be suggested to use lightweight apps.

[Ekaros]

B. But those neutered thin clients do not have enough ram to run software anyway even if all the real computation is in the cloud.

[throwaw12]

B sounds more likely because LLMs are already in the cloud and agents are thin clients