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  • Right now, not very. Basically only open source software can run on it, and only if it’s either exceptionally portable or has been tweaked to compile for it.

    In the future, hopefully this is usable for general computing, but right now it’s basically only usable for R&D or niche applications.

    The path forward for RISC-V is getting it into more developers’ hands though, so having it available for really nice hardware like the Framework is awesome.


  • Well, kind of 3 companies.

    Intel and AMD both have rights to x86_64, since they both held patents used by it. In 2021, AMD’s patents expired.

    Then there’s ARM, which is solely owned by Arm Holdings.

    But yes, it’s still very much a big problem, and I really hope RISC-V succeeds to solve that problem. Licensing core designs is a much better motive and business model than licensing an entire ISA.

    Edit: oh wait, you said two architectures, not two companies. Never mind, you’re right. :)










  • You have to understand what software can do, how to design it, and how it should interact with other systems in order to write software and not just code, and AI can’t do that. If you tell it to make you A, and what you really want is B, you’ll never get what you want.

    Only about 10-20 percent of my job as a software engineer is writing code. AI can be really amazing at writing code, but unless it can do the other 80-90% of my job without me, I’ll be safe.

    Now, whether middle and upper management will know this is an entirely different question. A lot of them think that lines of code written is a good measure of productivity, when in fact it’s often the opposite.

    I foresee there being a big struggle for management to come to grips with the fact that AI is better suited at their job than ours.