Ask HN: Who is building these apps?

by figassison 2/13/2026, 4:49 PMwith 1 comments

I have a 36GB MBP M3, basically running slack, zed, a markdown editor, Claude Desktop and Conductor with Claude Code. I have docker running (Orbstack actually) with no containers running, and it seems conductor is slowing down my machine so much that it started lagging. How on earth can I be worried about memory and cpu? Who is writing these apps?

by dreadswordon 2/13/2026, 5:01 PM

Dependencies & framework overhead. Back to Vanilla!