This is a manifesto about hardware. What it is, why it is neccesary, and how we can support it.

It works by processing a MDX file using a custom template that I made and styled.

Here are some thoughts that went into this: hardware is necessary we wouldn’t be here without it the ai boom will need a ton of hardware advancements that arent happening or at least not the speed that they should be there’s a massive community around software – makes sense, since there are more people doing software than hardware there’s a huge open source ecosystem around software there’s not much of a community or open source ecosystem around hardware (github for example doesnt offer much support for hardware ) most of the tools for hardware are all closed sourced and proprietary and controlled by only a few large companies we need more open source tools made for hardware developers or shit won’t happen (think kicad, etc.) large companies (mainly devops companies) that work for open source software need to support open source hardware as well (github, etc.) there is an understaffing of electrical engineers in the workforce, yet there are open jobs there is an especially large need of analog, rf, embedded, systems, and power engineers new ee degrees are significantly decreasing in comparison to all other degrees new ee degrees are orders of magnitude decreasing in comparison to comp sci we need more success stories for hardware we need smaller hardware startups and not have the entire market controlled by a select few large companies we need to find a way to have the same sort of startup culture around hardware startup incubators for hardware?? we need to make prototyping for hardware much much faster we need to get hardware into the hands of teens and kids, get them interested and learning at a young age there needs to be an easy way to explain and describe hardware for software people and non-engineers there needs to be an easy way to pitch this to people sharktank for hardware??? – easy path for hardware engineers to get their thing off the ground – system of grants for them venture capitalists specially for hardware engineers part of the problem with all of the degrees going to comp sci is that ee s learn comp sci as part of their degree and learn that more engineers have a much faster path to being senior and have more room to make more money – we need to give better incentives and more of the fast paced startup culture that makes hardware engineers successful and wealthy that same way software engineers get wealthy quickly most of the degrees for ee are international nowadays the overseas has a much better job market than the us this is our fault because the us didn’t want all the factories because it was cheaper in china and other places but the factories actually needed local knowledge to manage and run those factories so there was and still is a huge boom of electronic engineers in those places it becomes an issue of geopolitics even – we don’t have enough chip fabs for example the ee job market is increasing rapidly – not as much as comp sci – but we don’t have anyone who will be able to work in this market with new advances in ai, we’ll need much much better hardware – and there’s actually more job security than software engineers because ai can’t replace hardware engineers as humanity continues to grow, we’ll use more electricity as long as electricity is used, electrical engineers will be needed we need to come up with ideas to get more people doing hardware and electrical engineering there is so much big talk about hardware but nothing ever even happens you can run hardware without software, but you can’t run software without hardwaren’t run software without hardware