Reduce bundle / compiled size (MBs)

[remcostoeten]

Goal

Investigate and reduce the compiled bundle size (MBs) of the app.

Areas to look at

• Tree-shaking / dead code elimination.
• Heavy dependencies — audit and replace/trim where possible.
• Code splitting / lazy loading of non-critical surfaces (e.g. AI panel, Docker manager, schema viz).
• Asset weight (icons, images, fonts).
• Tauri/desktop binary size.

Deliverable

A breakdown of current size contributors + concrete reductions applied.

[remcostoeten]

Status: the investigation half of this is done and measured.

• Binary is ~68MB; DuckDB is the only meaningful size lever (~half the binary).
• Dependency pruning does not reduce size under fat LTO (compile-time win only); thin LTO grows the binary and was rejected.
• The fix is the in-flight DuckDB helper-process work on feat/duckdb-helper-process (spec: docs/duckdb-helper-process.md): move DuckDB out of the main binary into a helper that downloads libduckdb on first use. The DuckDbConn trait has landed; the ~19-file call-site migration remains.

This issue closes when that branch ships.