Aaron Slodov

proud to announce Atomic Industries has raised a $25M Series A led by MaC Venture Capital and DTX Ventures, with participation from the University of Michigan, S&A, Calm Ventures, Blackwing, Narya, and others, to build America's next generation industrial base.

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I live in Eindhoven, ASML town. Heard this from folks inside... Over the years ASML promoted a lot of strong EUV people into architect roles, group leads, management tracks. Built up serious layers. Classic growth pain. Then McKinsey comes in , says cut the management layers to speed things up. So now those same high performers, real good EUV experts, who got promoted are the ones on the block. About 3400 roles targeted, mostly management. Half will be reassigned, rest gone. Big hit in Veldhoven/Eindhoven area (~1400), some in US. Unncertainty is high, unions talking, details probably land around April. At the same time, ASML is still planning massive growth. The new campus near the airport just got final green light from city council. Construction starts soon, phased build-out. Long term they talk ~20,000 new jobs in the region (first wave ~5k by 2028). And the layoff packages are subpar. Philips is also based in the same town. And they had layoffs due to serious financial issues last year. Their layoff packages were much better than what ASML is offering. What a way to kill tje company culture. Especially at a time when the company is printing money.

@chrizmillr such a great time watching this, really appreciated all the effort put into the world building. high amount of rewatchability.

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If you are attending @APSphysics March meeting, come learn more about thermodynamic computing! Our work on taming non-equilibrium thermal electron fluctuations in silicon is now accepted in Physical Review Applied. Read more here: journals.aps.org/prapplied/abst…

@nickwhite1995 @the_transit_guy most people don't know that 60% of jobs today didn't exist in 1940 and people couldn't even conceive of what they would be

@the_transit_guy @aphysicist US Census in 1900, 40% of people reported they worked in Agriculture. Now, it’s less than 2%. Tractors/machinery/equipment wiped 38% of jobs. But unemployement isn’t at 38%. Roles now exist that didn’t exist prior - AI Developer, golf pro, Traffic Engineer Influencer etc.

i wonder if he realizes that a) this ultimately creates more jobs, b) we are a generation way from automating factories

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@the_transit_guy here's a great list: buildlist.xyz atomic: #careers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">atomic.industries/#careers

@aphysicist So Amazon fulfillment workers should be advised to apply to which company/link? I know a lot of people who work at said facilities and I am sure they'd love to work for your company.

@the_transit_guy sure, look at my company

@aphysicist So just so I understand, the automation of 600k jobs will create more jobs based on a book, in which you cannot give me a real life example of what displaced worker would do?

@HusbandOfAyn @andrewmccalip yes indeed, he knows what's up

@andrewmccalip That's what I was looking for. I knew TPOT had something to do with this. And he followed @aphysicist

@the_transit_guy sure read this book

@aphysicist Can you expound on A and give an example?

@RhombusThelyght @romanhelmetguy this will create more jobs overall, also it's very zero-sum to think about everything as a job's program

@aphysicist @romanhelmetguy Why? These plants ideally wont staff any humans. We need jobs created, this wont accomplish that.

holy shit. now this is the level of seriousness we need.

@ainativefirm wrong. but good thought

@rapaccinim @JeffBezos @reindsummit yes

@aphysicist @JeffBezos @reindsummit @aphysicist is it open also to UK companies willing to expand in the US?

@beffjezos so so back

gotta love when your thesis becomes consensus

I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this..... But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software. I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it. He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code. Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time. His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages. His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything. My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five." Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder. I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.

@uncledoomer it's not like a twitter post has consequences in the real world

cool post man. at any other time in human history, i would confiscate everything you own at sword point and end your bloodline. but we do things a little differently these days. so instead, ill read your subsentient opinion and pretend like you deserve to be alive