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I do appreciate that they are at least giving people some agency into the decision first, rather than ruthlessly cutting people

I don’t think I agree with a snack company having an easier time becoming a packaging company. Sure they know what they need but outside the idea there’s almost no overlap in the companies business units

Neither would be easy for either to do

There's a scale to this as well. When you take advice from something in a book, that isn't specific, its general and meant to appeal to many. When you take advice from a colleague or friend, its more specific, they know more about your context and situation, the advice fits better.

Everything OP said though still applies, figure it out for yourself.

Very cool and pretty amazing it requires only 46 people. My software team is about that size and I feel like 70k street signs a year is a lot more work than what we accomplish in a year...

I don't know if this is just the Claude Code team that works on the Agentic harness or the one that does the backend model hosting. But if it's the former, I think posts like this are exhausting because their stack is so simple that a setup like this is possible.

I would love to create agentic feedback loops like this but my project (and probably a lot in the software industry) are compiled. Compiling not only takes a lot of time, but we have to carry around nearly 200 GBs in toolchain dependencies, require access to license servers for 3rd party software used in the toolchain and to run the full integration test suite on the project can take hours even with parallel testing in the VM while using multiple VMs. And these VMs aren't small, 64 core/128GB. So outside of unit tests, we can't really merge code fast and test it with high confidence without spending an absolute absurd amount on VMs in order to enable the agents to move quickly.

28 nm can be good enough for a lot of things, and that's where open source could eventually become a viable option.

We will eventually reach a point where shrinking transistors provides diminishing returns, which should give open-source tooling and processes more time to close the gap. But we're probably still at least a decade away from seeing how that plays out, and who knows what happens with quantum computing, new materials, 3D integration, or some other semiconductor breakthrough in the meantime.

Even then, I don't think open source necessarily catches the absolute state of the art. Unless a startup fab decides to build its own EDA stack and open-source it as a way to attract customers, there will probably always be some gap between open and commercial tooling. The question is whether that gap eventually stops mattering for most designs

The EDA tools also have close relationships with the fabs like TSMC. Their moats aren't necessarily the software, it's that relationship and the ability to update the software for the latest process.

Open source would always be behind, the fabs don't want other fabs knowing about their process which is why its secluded behind the EDA tools with NDAs.

Synopsys, Siemens, and Cadence's EDA tools are the reason for the most part.

They have automated a lot of the really hard work and most the industry is trained on their tools.

And meanwhile I feel like I can never find time for myself on the weekend

Why can't I rack my brain around why this is needed? I have had zero issues using git with agentic coding.

Disable interoperability

Its a good idea and enterprise customers will love it.

You need to start Claude in WSL, not from outside in Windows. Windows user has complete ownership over the WSL it launches

Trust me, its not worth the performance cost. Just use git push and pull across the /mnt/c boundry

Microsoft now launches a pop-up discourging this, so that is my source. Also my own personal experience using WSL for 8 years.

You can very easily measure this as well, use any disk benchmark