Always noticed this about vibe coded garbage. Horrible performance, like it wasn’t even tested. I’ve had more websites, even from big names, crash my entire browser or PC in the last 6 months than ever before.
Claude code is a terminal app and runs slower for me than Cyberpunk with ray tracing on. Turns out it’s 100% vibe coded, big surprise.
I’m missing artisanal, carefully crafted software from before LLM times. Microsoft Teams, Eclipse, Elastic, Lotus Notes even, and every website, well-thought and carefully optimized, taking its 30 second to load carefully picked handcrafted ads with broken CSS and color palette causing epileptic seizures. But sure.
Software has been horrible for the last 20 years. Photoshop slop was replaced by AI slop. LLMs have replaced software bootcamps.
Here’s Tom with the weather.“Can you make me download 150 MBs of .js files before I can read a single text-based article please?” - Software connoisseurs before AIs bloated everything
Vibe bros LOVE their useless animations and effects. There is this one website I found for doing Regexes called openregex or something. And just having that page open with nothing else going on slams your GPU. It looks ugly as sin, too. And if you go to wayback machine and see when that page first was created it actually looked relatively normal and fine.
Isn’t the whole point of regex to toil for 3 hours to write something very specific you will only ever use once?
This is pretty normal in the wonderful world of web apps.
The Foundry TTRPG app consumes a 100% of my laptop GPU while the game is paused, because of the spinning icon. Otherwise it hovers around 70%.
That is, if the details are cranked to minimum, and framerate limited to 30fps.
Plenty of games pull all the watts even if it’s paused in a menu screen
The spinning, thinking, animation is very frustrating anyway. I had to have my router remotely reset and my provider uses an AI assistant to handle that. It felt like it had to remind me every 15 seconds it was working or thinking about what to do. It felt like it was using more resources to tell me it was working vs just researching. I miss process trees.
