It's time to talk about the enormous and seriously underoptimized dev tools

We all know that Figma, VSCode, and Chrome eat RAM like there's no tomorrow...

But man, the Next.js dev server just absolutely obliterates my Mac... My computer is freezing, struggling, and overheating after just an hour of coding...

It's a 2021 M1 Pro Macbook Pro with 16GB memory. A $2,500+ work machine. This shouldn't be normal.

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