With Gigabytes of RAM it's easy not to prioritize optimizing memory usage these days.

Recently I got kind of addicted to squeezing every possible wasteful byte out of my codebase using Claude: every find and fix gives me a new dopamine hit, not comparable to any other coding I did in the past.

While this neural feedback loop and its potency is not new, AI coding seems to supercharge it in a way that seems different to other forms of AI coding where the method is less "surgical".

At least compared to other AI-assisted coding tasks (eg UI, feature dev) I feel much more in control, be able to understand what's going on, provide insightful direction, am able to learn new things, etc.

I am wondering whether there are others who are experiencing sth similar.