New M1 8GB MBA: Should I be upgrading to 16 GB?

I've got a new 8GB MacBook Air, which is a lovely machine, but I'm not sure if I should really be upgrading to a 16GB model. I've been playing with Activity Monitor, and it's not hard to get Memory Usage up to 7GB or so, with a good load of Safari tabs, Xcode running smallish projects, Google Earth Pro, and a half dozen or so other apps open and running. I'm not noticing any particular slowness (that I can tell) but am not sure what other metrics I might be looking at to determine if more memory would be better.

Any thoughts? TIA.
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Did you upgrade to a 16GB machine, or or are you keeping your 8GB ?

I am planning to get an M1 mini, mainly for Xcode and because of my budget would rather get 8GB / 512GB than 16GB / 256GB at the same price.

A lot of reviews I have seen suggest 8GB should be fine, but then an equal number recommend going for 16GB !

Thanks.
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