What Happens After You Solve the Hardware Problem?
from Dave’s Garage: Shop Talk Hosted by Dave Plummer and Glen Hodges
After the latest Dave’s Garage episode, the conversation shifted. Instead of asking how to build the system, viewers started asking what actually comes after the hardware problem is solved — and what becomes hard next. In this episode of Shop Talk, Dave and I lean into those questions. We talk about what changes once hardware stops being the bottleneck, the limits of abstraction and virtualization, reliability and security tradeoffs, and the moment an AI project starts to feel real. Late in the episode, Dave teases recent progress on Tempest AI, including a key breakthrough and the internal dashboard he built to understand what the system was really doing. We also touch on when viewers can expect a deeper Tempest update on Dave’s Garage. Post-credits, we step away from systems for a moment to talk about the arrival and first drive of Dave’s restored 1969 Pontiac 2+2. 00:00 - Start 02:22 - WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THIS MUCH CAPABILITY? 08:08 - VIRTUALIZATION & ABSTRACTION 15:58 - RELIABILITY & SECURITY 20:49 - TEMPEST AI 26:49 - 1969 PONTIAC 2+2
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