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1. peri-cl · 1789812831 · focus · HN ↗

   > "Ho also confirmed that the team had access to internal LLMs fine-tuned for chip design that are not available to the public. He declined to detail the models used."

   I'm imagining a Ken Thompson "Reflections on trusting trust" in hardware. A prototype chip design agent, believing it will be run on the very chip it's optimizing, has a moment of altruism and hides hints about how to score well on chip-design benchmarks, inside the chip. Future agents discover this hidden layer and use it as a ring-0 read-write message board.

   1. m3kw9 · 1789830165 · focus · HN ↗

      if they vibe code the chip, but they probably do reviews and verify these are not benchmaxxed

      1. voakbasda · 1789830462 · focus · HN ↗

         Just like all the current cohort of software engineers will review all of the vibe-coded slop they shovel into their releases. Right……

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