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New comment by deweywsu in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

deweywsu — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:00:54 +0000

Quite true

New comment by deweywsu in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

deweywsu — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:00:15 +0000

Very true, and all I am basing my comment on is the improvement in speed AI has demonstrated when applied to software development, and inferring it might enable a similar 10X or 100X improvement in both hardware architecture as well LLM structure and/or interface methods. If that speed improvement applies to performance of AI, that could mean the 70 years it took for people to improve storage technology might be able to be compressed to achieve a step change in AI performance in a drastically shorter timeframe.

New comment by deweywsu in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

deweywsu — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:48:05 +0000

With the pace of AI, and with AI helping to pave the way for faster/better AI, I keep wondering if hardware like this will become obsolete well before it has a meaningful ROI. Huge AI models can be run with less resources already through quantization and offloading, but that's just the beginning. One day, maybe not far from now, a breakthrough will allow huge LLMs (say 200B in size) to run well on an old 5 year old Dell desktop. Think that's crazy? Look at the size of the first hard drives. The IBM 350 was a disk with 50 platters, 24 inches in diameter, that held 3.5Mb, and was leased for today's equivalent of $35K.

https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/first-commerci...

Compare that to a multi-terabyte ssd. Now apply that improvement to how an LLM is architected and run now. With AI assisting, it won't be long before a leap occurs and these data centers with all their current ultra-cutting edge Nvidia cards are nearly obsolete overnight.

New comment by deweywsu in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

deweywsu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:56:29 +0000

This is true, and I'm sure AI cuts will continue, but it's obvious that the ones who went "all in" at AI's mass introduction were drinking a special kind of Kool-Aid reserved for the truly sycophantic Wall Street lap dogs, not the CEOs who think about risk and are cautious about betting the farm on a relatively new and mostly untested technology. GM is over 100 years old, and no doubt released improvements that were well-tested and predictable, because you don't take massive chances with a company that well established. It was a couple years into the mass AI deployment that studies on the minimal overall productivity gains of AI even started to come out(!) This was "get on the bandwagon" thinking at a massive scale, which shows you how many CEOs are not independent thinkers at all, but are really just followers. Yes, use AI, but do it responsibly, never forgetting that your investors aren't your only stakeholders - so are your people.

New comment by deweywsu in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

deweywsu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:41:18 +0000

I know a lot of level-headed engineers here may not side with me, but I say let the companies who abandoned their people at the drop of a hat, with CEOs who waved their flag around on social media, proudly declaring how they'd now run their companies with 75% fewer employees wither and die. If I had been let go, there's no way I'd go back to a company like that, and there should be a black list of CEOs who acted this way established and kept public. These CEOs are not holistic thinkers, and are too susceptible to mass hysteria and too irresponsible to real people and their lives to be trusted with the vision for any company ever again.

New comment by deweywsu in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

deweywsu — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:48:17 +0000

What was really behind the push to get everything browser based in the first place? Is this all to make everything cloud based, software as a service, or did some exec see a demo of Windows 8 and think "web is the future" and over-rotate?

New comment by deweywsu in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

deweywsu — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:34:12 +0000

I'd love to know how you got your book into the public eye. What kind of marketing and sales channels did you target to get noticed? Thanks

New comment by deweywsu in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

deweywsu — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:48:33 +0000

Same for my experience.

New comment by deweywsu in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

deweywsu — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:37:35 +0000

And so it begins; even the blue collar jobs aren't safe.

New comment by deweywsu in "A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools"

deweywsu — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:24:45 +0000

What, no mention of SoftIce or IDA? What about W32Dasm? OllyDBG? Even WinDbg has a place.

New comment by deweywsu in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

deweywsu — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:30:28 +0000

How is having local AI going to produce a result that's any better than using OpenAI or Anthropic? Isn't what we really need programmers who rely on themselves more than AI so they avoid technical debt accumulation?

New comment by deweywsu in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

deweywsu — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:14:31 +0000

This is what I have been thinking. Business will always try to do more with less because their only true goal is figuring out how to make more money. They will sacrifice giving those juniors time to learn from their mistakes for the sake of making more widgets (code). From the wider generational view, they will rob today's juniors from the chance to learn and thereby keep the talent pipeline full so they can profit today, the future (and the developers who will arrive there) be damned. The economic game is flawed because it only ever comes down to a single output that is optimized for: money. One solution? I think software people might consider forming unions. I know that's antithetical to the lone coder ethos, but if what this comment reflects is true, the industry needs a check and balance to prevent it from destroying its foundation from the inside.

New comment by deweywsu in "Cursor Camp"

deweywsu — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:42:05 +0000

SO much better than the metaverse, at 1/1000000th the cost!

New comment by deweywsu in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

deweywsu — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:17:17 +0000

Thank you for the recommendation!

New comment by deweywsu in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

deweywsu — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:33:50 +0000

I always wanted to get into RF design, but couldn't find it within the mega company I work for (we integrate more than we design at the component level). RF design has always been a bit of black magic, even as an EE. Other than some really great books from ARRL in the amateur radio arena, I haven't found too many good "as it really works in the working world" references. Can anyone point at any good books and/or sites that go into detail about this fascinating field?

New comment by deweywsu in "Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer"

deweywsu — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:52:30 +0000

WOW! I started off thinking "this could be a boring meandering through registers and op codes" but by the time I got half way through your write-up, I was bouncing off the walls excited. Thanks for sharing your awesome write-up and glad you had such a cool project!

New comment by deweywsu in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

deweywsu — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:27:46 +0000

How did you get such a good sense for business alongside implementing solutions with programming? Did you have experience doing this before?

New comment by deweywsu in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

deweywsu — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:46:14 +0000

Would you recommend buying a business over starting one from scratch when possible?

New comment by deweywsu in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

deweywsu — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:43:47 +0000

That said, this guy is a superstar. This kind of application of skill to a totally different business paradigm to improve it is what I'd love to spend my time doing. Knowing my personality, once I improved the business, I'd get bored running it and move on to finding something else to improve.

New comment by deweywsu in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

deweywsu — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:30:04 +0000

This might be a bit of a gold rush of sorts at first, in that the first people to transition from tech to running a small business, whether tech-enabled or not, will find a bigger piece of the pie waiting for their taking. But as the stream of many others increases over the years, the pie's slices will get smaller as competition for the same market segments increases. Not trying to paint doom and gloom, just that I'd imagine, as the author says, this kind of white to blue collar shift will accelerate, and as it does, competition will rise, lowering the chance for overall profits.