That's embarrassing.

Not your app, it rocks.

Microsoft. It's like some decision-maker thinks it's OK to waste memory as long as it's someone (everyone) elses' memory, but it really adds up if you know anything about scale.

But what they're also doing is a non-businesslike under-utilization of their own resources.

Which is disgraceful in itself on top of that.

They're supposed to have much better AI than average and nobody even bothered to ask ChatGPT why in the world weather should take more than kilobytes?

And if their AI can't do it autonomously in under a megabyte it should be able to give a plausible explanation why not by now, and at least it would be orders of magnitude better than a gigabyte.

I assume yours went smoothly as prompted and it surely is an excellent example :)

> It's like some decision-maker thinks it's OK to waste memory as long as it's someone (everyone) elses' memory

My friend, you're giving them way too much credit.

Nobody, especially no decision-maker involved with this, has ever spent a single thought anywhere near any concept related to memory.

It just literally never crossed anyone's mind.

They're supposed to have much better AI than average

I suspect there will be a bit of revelation once people realise how much better AI can make software if prompted correctly. Of course a lot of slop will always exist, but things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226923 show that it can be a powerful force multiplier if used right.

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