I’m guessing that we’ll see lots of news in 2026 about how companies are hiring developers to help improve the memory efficiency of their software because they just can’t get enough servers. Also, the servers they do get will have reduced RAM compared to what they wanted.
Maybe something like this will happen for some critical proprietary software, at Cloudflare etc. But I wouldn’t expect any benefits for software ran on your personal machine, unless the shortage goes on for 10 years.
RAM is still cheaper than developers, at least until some point
Yeah, and for consumer software, the companies developing the software don’t have to pay for the RAM, so unless it becomes a widespread reason to switch away from their software, they do not have to care at all.