Are any of them making compostable sustainable chips out of graphene or carbon nanotubes yet though?
They all compete for Silicon (SiO2) and P and B and Copper (Cu) and Neon (Ne), and PFAS for photoresist masks.
Graphene can be made from CO2 and unsorted plastics, though graphene is typically manufactured from imported graphite FWIU.
Traditional nanolithography works on silicon carbide.
FET nano transistors can be patterned into graphene and other forms of carbon.
Graphene oxide and Carbon epoxide are probably better substrates than doped Silicon.
The work functions of graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes are different enough for reduced graphene oxide to be the substrate for carbon-based integrated electronic, phononic, and photonic computing chips.
Alternate semiconductor materials (Graphene, SiC) could circumvent some of the expensive steps required for Si, but not all. Here's a good article about the unimaginably high purity standards for the water used in the industry:
The average fab uses about 2,000 gallons of ultrapure water each minute, 2-3 million gallons each day.
Pipes and tubing are constantly shedding particles into flowing water - with random bursts that drive everyone crazy.
Once the killer particle size limit ratcheted down to 20 nanometers - a limit we hit roughly about ten years ago - engineers realized that there existed no detection tool for consistently detecting sub-10 nanometer particles in low quantities.
Supposedly, Taiwan based TSMC employees are always on call, and they'll get out of bed during the night to answer the call and go to work. I read that a while back... but it makes sense. Extreme work ethic and extreme competence.
Clickbait title. They only cut off the AI that was using Google as their crawler, which was not a good idea in the first place. I’d love to ask the developers of these AIs: what exactly did you expect to happen here?
same could be said of famines like the one in China or Soviet Union or ones in Africa: they simply needed to pay up for food, if they were really that hungry
your logic erases nuance of the US labor market and infinity of specializations and niches, on top or large regional differences in labor market.
let's just say that nurses will never be paid on par with software engineers just because it is different specialty, and it is stupid to force nurses to compete with IT for visas
We've seen this complaint circulating since the ChatGPT age. People who initially thought they were getting good results: part of it was that they got lucky and experienced reversion to the mean, part of it was that they got seduced. I mean, coding agents do have some value, but they screw up a lot.
No, you are wrong. It is confirmed acting very odd and the context windows have gotten extremely short. That is in Claude Desktop or the web client.
It is possible to gauge if it is not performing well without it being a user assumption. In my case, I can clearly see the tool use has changed. That means something happened on the backend to limit the time taken to think about things or SOMETHING. I have no idea what, but it seems to be over rotating on explaining why something is broken with excuses it has literally just been told it wasn't the issue.
Today, it disabled code to "fix" the issue instead of applying a patch that was written by Gemini. And, Claude Desktop is a buggy piece of shit. I have no idea who is in charge of that project, but they should be fired immediately. It locks up constantly, crashes frequently, drops messages during mid streaming (and deletes what you posted to it as well) and has random error messages. I've complained to support multiple times and just get stock messages back that they are working on things.
On top of all that, it shows "Claude can't run the code it writes, yet" over and over and over again at the bottom of the messages. It's a usability nightmare, is what it is.
I am aware of the "your LLM is terrible now" trope, and have called it out many times myself. It's an interesting phenomenon.
However, I posted this link for selfish reasons. I wanted to see if this experienced dev team's complaints rang true to other Claude Code users as well. I have been considering CC, but thought maybe I had missed the initial good times.
I believe, one way or another, that the poster of that article is correctly evaluating the performance of CC now. Whether it was better before or whether he was looking at it with rose tinted glasses now is beside the point.
What's really missing in this ecosystem is someone who runs the same problems against the same codebase repeatedly, and publishes weekly results on all LLM-based coding tools.
It seems like Playwright now allows you to control an Electron app, like a VSCode fork. The CLI tools like Claude Code are easy to include in automated testing.
reply