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I get the feeling internally Intel is following the unfortunately popular paradigms and ideas that Agile (note the capital A instead of lower) enables. Commitm
by lloydatkinson 4y ago
I get the feeling internally Intel is following the unfortunately popular paradigms and ideas that Agile (note the capital A instead of lower) enables.
Commitments to work without anyone asking for it
When someone does ask for work, the requirements go through N number of middle management layers blurring them every step of the way like Chinese Whispers
Projects must continue even when it is clear it's going to be a failure because the people running it haven't heard of the phrase "sunk cost fallacy"
Of the few genuinely good ideas that are produced, they are again strangled by incompetent middle management who are only interested on working on a project to get their next promotion and then quickly "moving on" (abandoning it) when they do get promoted (this seems to be one of the largest complaints from insiders at Google)
- pjmlp 4y agoSee the history of ISPC, and how it was rescued, it touches on some of those points. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/18/ispc-origins https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/18/ispc-origins
- lloydatkinson 4y ago> So there was #pragma simd, which sort of worked, unless you called an external function; that problem never got solved. They never understood why someone would want to write a large system that ran completely using all of the vector lanes and couldn’t imagine it was an important use case. (The attentive reader may realize that this execution model precisely describes GPUs.) Fuck, that must have been an infuriating experience dealing with the hardware team.