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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by torginus on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:07PM (#46906068)
Except for Moore's law, everyone knew decades ahead of what the limits of Dennard scaling are (shrinking geometry through smaller optical feature sizes), and roughly when we would get to the limit.

Since then, all improvements came at a tradeoff, and there was a definite flattening of progress.

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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by nozzlegear on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:28PM (#46906303)
> Since then, all improvements came at a tradeoff, and there was a definite flattening of progress.

Idk, that sounds remarkably similar to these AI models to me.

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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by kijiki on Thursday February 05, 2026 @09:17PM (#46908170)
Everyone?

Intel, at the time the unquestioned world leader in semiconductor fabrication was so unable to accurately predict the end of Dennard scaling that they rolled out the Pentium 4. "10Ghz by 2010!" was something they predicted publicly in earnest!

It, uhhh, didn't quite work out that way.

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