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Daniel Lemire
@lemire
Software performance expert. Ranked in the top 2% of scientists globally (Stanford/Elsevier 2025) and among GitHub's top 1000 developers. Father, husband.
⭐ Pro tip: How do you find all releases containing commit 584b18eb. git tag --contains 584b18eb- Let me sum up where I think we are on jobs and AI. 1. AI is capital. Like trade, capital substitutes for labor. Historically it destroys some jobs and creates others. 2. There is still no clear evidence that AI is causing net job losses. Look at the aggregate data. No strong
- SpaceX is building a semiconductor factory (Terafab). It is supposed to be 10 million square meters. It is tiny compared to Texas, but it is going to be (by far) the largest building ever constructed. (Assuming that SpaceX gets it done.)I don’t think people really understand just how big this thing is.
- In the video, Casey (@cmuratori) is right to challenge the industrial-revolution analogy for AI. History does not repeat. If it did, predicting the future would be straightforward. But Casey may err when he frames the future as “what we do today, plus AI.” Software teams
