Unpopular opinion: developers should be forced to use low-end laptops
The real reason why 16 gigs of RAM is not sufficient is AI — but not in the way everyone thinks.
My point is: engineers use AI to develop apps that turn out sloppy (bad UI, poor UX). But the fault here is not about using AI — the app can still be optimized, developers just choose not to. The reason is that the big companies they work for give them high-end, high-performance computers for development, so they don’t care about lower-end devices. Of course the app may work on potato PCs, but the thing is it will have way more issues than the developer expected.
Luckily I have a solution — ban AI. lol just kidding.
Give developers low-end machines so they are forced to optimize their apps to the absolute max.
Let me involve an example to support my case — WhatsApp. WhatsApp was good, working, no issues. But now WhatsApp is basically a web wrapper, requiring internet to even open, and it lost lots of other features too like the popout chat where tf is it !?
So the developers are tricked into thinking they are doing a good job, but in reality tech is evolving backwards.