Tape out time always sucks. I'm in physical design which is fixing all the timing violations, DRC violations, LVS errors, and dealing with late design changes.

Working 80 to 100 hours a week for a month really sucks and makes you wonder why you didn't go into software.

When you combine it with a fixed shuttle date like in the article it is even worse because if you miss that date it might be another 1-2 months for the next shuttle instead of just a day for day slip when you control all the masks.

The only real problem was that in the middle of nowhere, I didn’t have a reliable enough data connection to keep the conversation going, but that’s hardly OpenAI’s fault.

I don’t know what type of budget and expenses go into running this park in an ideal scenario, and what the revenue shortfall might be that would require additional taxpayer subsidies, but it seems like the obvious solution here is the ask people using the park to pay for the majority of its operations