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Feels like we remember MS-DOS as simple because it fit the time. One user, limited hardware, not much going on in the background. As soon as you try to add multitasking, networking, or even basic isolation, that simplicity doesn’t really hold up.
Feels like the real story here is cost/performance tradeoff rather than raw capability. Benchmarks keep moving incrementally, but efficiency gains like this actually change who can afford to build on top.
Great modal, I have been using codex and its awesome. Lets see what GPT-5.5 does to it
This is fascinating, but it really highlights how insane modern hardware manufacturing has become.
Would be interesting to know where the biggest bottleneck shows up first: materials, lithography, or error rates?