It's one tiny animation, Michael, what could it cost, 70%?

GPU usage drops from 70% to 3% by hiding side bar, Thanks alot.

It’s like they’re trying to maximize power consumption even by their users.

There is something rather ironic with slopbros getting upset about resource usage. Can’t quite put my finger on what though. Guess I need to outsource my thinking to an LLM.

Probably AI written code.

And the "fix" is to add an option to hide the spinner:

Job done! Everybody go home!

What a waste of power and water. Hilarious...

I fucking knew it

It's about 70% utilization and up to 1.5 W power on my M4 Pro

Ok so either Apple GPUs are the crazyiest crap on the market, or this dude's power sensor is broken... or both.

It's funnier cause it's not a LLM running on his PC that's causing it

Same as the discord typing animation

The issue is from early April and still open lol

Was the animation vibe coded by any chance?

Instead of spinners, you should use progress bars. When the endpoint of a process is unknown, you should just have a ticker that displays an increasing number. In codex, for example, just show me the number of tokens read or generated so far. It gives me feedback that the process hasn't frozen, and it provides useful information. What an easy and cheap solution!

Pretty sure I've seen this exact problem in many versions of web browser with their loading throbbers.

I still wouldn't call them "useless". The visual feedback that something is happening is useful.

That's... an expensive loading spinner.

We should go back to the 8 frame wristwatch from the old Mac days. 🕛🕑🕒🕓🕕🕖🕘🕚 perhaps that will save resources.

Crypto sites are even better: it takes them like 5 seconds of desktop CPU to load a fucking chart.

Ngl I had ai make me a portfolio template using hermes (never used threejs, have used blender, wanted a reference for certain visual styles), now I'm worried it unnecessarily eats performance and I won't be able to figure out how, not really an issue, but ai makes it harder to learn sht because you have to backtrack to find out whats wrong Ai Generated Site

All apps developed by AI use useless, annoying, battery draining animations. That’s why you have to close them once you’re done if you want any battery life at all. The Suno app will chew through 50% of my battery in an hour.

Always noticed this about vibe coded garbage. Horrible performance, like it wasn’t even tested. I’ve had more websites, even from big names, crash my entire browser or PC in the last 6 months than ever before.

Claude code is a terminal app and runs slower for me than Cyberpunk with ray tracing on. Turns out it’s 100% vibe coded, big surprise.

And the "fix" was to add an option to hide the spinner, it seems. I guess understanding why stuff is happening is too old-fashioned for today's vibe pioneers.

Vibe bros LOVE their useless animations and effects. There is this one website I found for doing Regexes called openregex or something. And just having that page open with nothing else going on slams your GPU. It looks ugly as sin, too. And if you go to wayback machine and see when that page first was created it actually looked relatively normal and fine.

The spinning, thinking, animation is very frustrating anyway. I had to have my router remotely reset and my provider uses an AI assistant to handle that. It felt like it had to remind me every 15 seconds it was working or thinking about what to do. It felt like it was using more resources to tell me it was working vs just researching. I miss process trees.

This is pretty normal in the wonderful world of web apps.

The Foundry TTRPG app consumes a 100% of my laptop GPU while the game is paused, because of the spinning icon. Otherwise it hovers around 70%.

That is, if the details are cranked to minimum, and framerate limited to 30fps.

Am I the only one using AI to make my stuff as fast as possible and removing useless features and frameworks?