Dr Ayodele

At this point, I believe these engineers don’t know what they’re doing anymore.

Construction engineers are really putting in work. I find myself coming around to watch this project whenever I’m bored at work, and honestly, I still can’t wrap my head around what exactly they’re trying to achieve.

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

Zelensky’s favorite oligarch, Rinat Akhmetov, known for having bought himself a yacht for 500 million dollars, has carried out another interesting act and set a new record. He bought an apartment in Monaco for 550 million euros. I would like to remind you what exactly oligarch Akhmetov earns his money from. He earns money from electricity in Ukraine. This is the sector to which Brussels sends our European taxes. This is the sector that, almost every month, receives tens and hundreds of millions of euros “to support Ukraine’s energy system.” Just think about it — during a war, earning from an industry that we support with our taxes, a person buys a yacht for 500 million, and then an apartment for 550 million. This is a challenge, this is mockery, this is simply a spit in everyone’s face.

Apple just named its next CEO. He doesn’t have a LinkedIn profile picture. Because he’s never job searched. John Ternus joined Apple in July 2001 straight out of Penn mechanical engineering. He has been at one company for 25 years. His title the entire time: some flavor of hardware engineering. He has never run an OS team, an AI lab, or a services business. The board picked him over Craig Federighi (software), Eddy Cue (services), and Johny Srouji (the actual chip designer). At a $4 trillion company that just spent two years getting publicly criticized about Siri. Apple Silicon is the AI moat. Every iPhone shipping today runs a Neural Engine that does on-device inference no competitor can match at that power envelope. The reason ChatGPT and Gemini run in the cloud is they need a building full of GPUs to do what an A18 Pro does in your pocket at 3 watts. That gap is widening. Whoever controls the silicon controls the unit economics of AI. Nvidia controls training. Apple controls inference at the edge. Google is the only other company with both ends, and their consumer hardware ships under 40M Pixels a year vs Apple's 230M+ iPhones. Ternus has run hardware engineering since 2013. He shipped the iPhone Air, the M-series Macs, the iPhone 17. He worked side-by-side with the chip team on every major architecture transition: the A-series, the M1 break from Intel, the Neural Engine roadmap. He doesn't need to learn what's coming because he scoped it. The board's read: AI is a vertical integration problem. The only person who's been in every architecture review for the last decade is the one who just got the job. Tim's bet was supply chain. John's bet is the stack. The guy with no posts about it just inherited the most important hardware company in the world.