We live in a dev society of 'throw more resources at it and it will work', until of course you encounter a project that's so poorly resourced you hit limits. One line of code breaks the system. lol.

It is at these times you have to start thinking about: Oh.. perhaps my LINQ collection query is o(n*m) and I better use a O(1) dictionary.

One line of code breaks system is my preference, take certain template framework, it will not render anything if even a " is forgotten. Zero tollerance. I like that.

But you're right, especially with the use of AI we will make software very heavy. We can make a markdown parser ourselves or let AI do it on the background. One costs effort but is blazing fast and works online, only benefits, the other comes with kinda good not guaranteed result, has random performance and is remote fragile service. But I think AI will be used more and more for such stuff. "Is prompt of user all capitalized? Respond with in binary to be used as parameter of a function" to check if smth is uppercase 😂😂😂😂.

If you think software is inefficient now, just wait until people finally find out where you can use AI for. It seems that the quarter is not really fallen yet by most people.