在最新一期的播客访谈中,传奇芯片架构师 Jim Keller 深入探讨了计算机设计的本质。从分支预测的突破到 JavaScript 的诞生,从 Steve Jobs 的管理风格到 AI 时代的硬件革命,Keller 以其一贯的直率和深刻洞察,阐述了工程与发明、秩序与混乱、模块化与复杂性之间的永恒张力。作为 Tenstorrent 的新任 CTO,他正致力于构建原生支持 AI 计算图的新型处理器,试图在英伟达主导的市场中开辟一条新路。
"Good engineering is great craftsmanship and when you start thinking engineering is about invention, and set up a system that rewards invention, the craftsmanship gets neglected." —— 好的工程就是卓越的手艺。当你开始认为工程就是发明,并建立一套奖励发明的体系时,手艺就会被忽视。
"As you go from the origin, as you improve order, you improve productivity. And at some point, productivity peaks. And then it goes back down again." —— 从原点出发,随着秩序的改善,生产力会提高。但到了某个点,生产力达到顶峰,然后就会下降。
"Any organization will move to the place where their productivity is stymied by order." —— 任何组织都会走向一个境地,即其生产力被秩序所扼杀。
"A beautiful design can't be bigger than the person doing it." —— 一个优美的设计不可能大于设计它的人。
"The future of computing is inefficiency, not efficiency, but scales, inefficiency scales." —— 计算的未来是低效而非高效,但这种低效是可扩展的。