Only 500MB!

you are confirming their point even as you contradict the specifics

And highlighting a disconnect in the developer community. Some of us are okay with unnecessary overhead for quick results. I always felt gross dealing with Electron apps, but they're popular for a reason.

But each day now that overhead becomes more costly as AI drives up the very cost per byte of RAM.

they make one of those electron apps too

Followup: I closed out Claude completely, iterm2 completely. Reopened iterm2, and it appears iterm2 is using about 500MB of memory. So this has nothing to do with Claude Code CLI.

Yeah. Bonkers considering the brain of the application isn’t even on your device.