You’ve reduce the memory requirements so much that it could all run on an early 90s computer easily. When I see such extreme examples I think back to the OLPC machines and this idea of how can extremely cheap but with useful software computers be available in very impoverished areas. I understand this has nothing to do with your argument or anything you’re writing about. It just made me think if LLM assisted software production might make the failed OLPC idea viable again. Could a minimalist but useful set of tools be created to run on old chromebooks for example.
Back when I was using Amiga, there was an ongoing competition to trim tools down to the point you'd see people shaving off bytes at a time in some cases. It largely stopped because of the time investment. Ironically, if we can fire off some hugely resource hungry LLMs and trim the bloat we might end up reducing the resource requirements for everything else again...
