Le Chonk, Training Without Backprop, and AI-Designed Chips with Avi Flombaum
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What if everything developers know about building software is about to change?
This week on Chaos Agents, Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy welcome Avi Flombaum, entrepreneur, investor, and longtime builder, to question some of software engineering's most deeply held assumptions.
Should developers still care about reading every line of code? Is rewriting an application now more practical than refactoring it? And what happens when AI makes creating custom hardware as accessible as writing software?
Plus, we dig into Mistral's massive new open-weight model…
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