AI-assisted disclosure: Codex assisted with research, code and writing. Measurements, failure cases and limitations are retained from the original article.

Originally published by Alicia on 2026-10-23: Digital Garden by Alicia .

The most useful number in this comparison was the one missing from the initial headline: the library download. My local copy of slop-newyork transferred about 785 KB of compressed project files, close to the 784 KB figure in its launch post. It also fetched about 777 KB of compressed JavaScript from the Three.js CDN. Counting both made the observed encoded payload about 1.56 MB.

That does not make the original number wrong. It makes the boundary important. The same rule applies to my garden: a plant GLB, the first seasonal load and every background-preloaded season are different download budgets.

Tested locally with Codex on 23 October 2026. Download the measured results .…