Readit News- IC design software (at a startup bought by Cadence)
- an IC (contract out of Dallas semi)
- FPGA HFT acceleration
- fixing some OS drivers for Windows CE
- finding a compiler bug
- various bits of embedded firmware in C and assembly for various platforms
- debugging with a scope
- desktop applications
- a web server (defunct ZWS)
- web apps (Perl. Long time ago)
Somehow I've never written a react app.
Count your blessings.
True for coffee as well (if you substitute psychedelic with a more appropriate word).
Most mushrooms are edible because their spores can pass through the digestive system of most animals, thus allowing them to spread.
Other mushrooms developed toxins to protect their fruiting bodies - often the biggest threat isn't larger animals, but insects. Toxins that are neurotoxic to insect nervous systems, happen to cause mostly "harmless" psychedelic trips to our brains. Other toxin mechanisms happen to be deadly to both insects and humans.
As proof of this evolutionary arms race, there are fruit flies that have developed resistance to amatoxins.
No. It is not. Please understand what the LLM's are doing. Claude nor ChatGPT nor any major model knows what MCP is.
They know how to function & tool call. They have zero trained data on MCP.
That is a factual statement, not an opinion.
One key factor against them, though, is that they were facing a company whose long-term CEO had written Only The Paranoid Survive. At that point he had moved from being the CEO to the chairman of the board. But Intel had paranoia about possible existential threats baked into its DNA.
There is no question that Intel recognized Transmeta as a potential existential threat, and aggressively went after the very low-power market that Transmeta was targeting. Intel quickly created SpeedStep, allowing power consumption to dynamically scale when not under peak demand. This improved battery life on laptops using the Pentium III, without sacrificing peak performance. They went on to produce low power chips like the Pentium M that did even better on power.
Granted, Intel never managed to match the low power that Transmeta had. But they managed to limit Transmeta enough to cut off their air supply - they couldn't generate the revenue needed to invest enough to iterate as quickly as they needed to. This isn't just a story of Transmeta stumbling. This is also a story of Intel recognizing and heading off a potential threat.