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RAM bloat as externalized cost

April 3, 2026Aakash Gupta

Aakash Gupta argues software eats RAM because the cost is pushed onto users, contrasting tightly metered inference compute bills with unaccounted memory usage on personal devices.

The reason software eats RAM is the same reason factories used to dump chemicals in rivers.
The cost is externalized.
Every mass of inference compute shows up on an engineering manager's AWS bill
Aakash Gupta
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