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Here's a talk Preventing the Collapse of Civilization [0] for the same idea from Jonathan Blow. He mentioned Bob Colwell, who was the chief microprocessor arch

Here's a talk Preventing the Collapse of Civilization [0] for the same idea from Jonathan Blow. He mentioned Bob Colwell, who was the chief microprocessor architect at Intel, once encountering some issues with chips from TI. He went to TI, and those people told him they couldn't figure it out either because those fundamentals were done by first-generation magicians. And it's not just TI, Motorola, and Fairchild all have this kind of problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko

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I think in the old days there were people who actually understand how the whole system works in a fairly detail manner. A Polymath in Computing. How your Code > Compiler > OS > CPU > Silicon Design > Manufacturing works. I remember there was an old Intel fellow who understands Fabs, designed CPU, has experience with OS, wrote VM and does Web Programming for his hobby. ( He gave a talk somewhere but my Google fu is failing me ) Now everyone is so specialised in their domain no one has a good overview of anything. And no one understand how all the puzzle were fitted together in the first place. And after one or two generation, the Why it was crafted in the first place was lost. And we are left with people specialise in that domain to "Maintain" it. Or reinventing the Flat tire as Alan Kay calls it.