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Is that something a CEO of a massive company like Intel actually has the time to do in an impactful way? I'm no chip designer but a major chip design sounds inc
by wnevets 1y ago
Is that something a CEO of a massive company like Intel actually has the time to do in an impactful way? I'm no chip designer but a major chip design sounds incredibly complex and would require a tremendous amount of time & effort to review meaningfully.
- jiggawatts 1y agoI consult for large bureaucracies where this kind of thing is occasionally enforced. There’s nothing more fun than a carefully thought out cohesive design that takes into account all business and technical constraints being randomly “improved” by a too-busy senior manager who’s been “off the tools” for decades. “You should switch to NoSQL.” — a nearly verbatim quote from a meeting just last week. No justification or elaboration, just… abandon a relational database platform with two decades of built up business value on a whim. “Rejoice! For you have been managed!”
- mattkevan 1y agoI used to work for a chief exec like that. They’d see something on someone’s screen and demand changes, destroying months of carefully planned work with a single comment. In the end, we’d build in ‘breakpoints’ - things that we knew they’d pick up on and want to change so they felt like they’d had some input without damaging anything important. This worked very well.
- wnevets 1y agoJust remove the duck
- fsloth 1y agoStrong Jensen Huang cosplay vibes here but I see some missing elements for this approach to be very effective.
- wmf 1y agoIt sounds more like "Why are we making this chip? If you don't have a good answer, it's canceled."
- sys_64738 1y agoIt did work for Steve at Apple.