OpenAI uses 70% of GPU for a tiny animation in hilarious lack of basic optimisation; "High GPU usage while the app is “thinking” due to tiny useless animation · Issue #16857 · openai/codex"
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Ok so either Apple GPUs are the crazyiest crap on the market, or this dude's sensor power sensor is broken... or both.
And the "fix" is to add an option to hide the spinner:
Job done! Everybody go home!
Somebody's listening :) The don't burn my house down customization feature has been added in the latest toaster firmware.
It's one tiny animation, Michael, what could it cost, 70%?
There are always tokens in the nano banana stand.
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.
What a waste of power and water. Hilarious...
Just power, unless you evaporatively cool your home pc.
Same as the discord typing animation
That one is rendered on the CPU.
If you have a client that supports Vencord mods, you can disable it with this.
I fucking knew it