Posts tagged: hardware
4 posts
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A Bet Against Iteration
Etching a model's weights into silicon only pays off for tasks nobody is still arguing about, and that's not where the money is.
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The Chip That Can't Be Patched
Etching a model into silicon means betting this version is the last one you'll need, a bet software spent forty years building tools to avoid.
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Closed Enough to Break Alone
Complexity doesn't decide whether a broken system is recoverable; documented interior access does, and its absence is the failure mode.
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The Permission Structure
Cheap hardware doesn't change what you can afford to break. It changes whether failure feels like permission or a penalty.