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> Making a chip has been something that has been done completely methodically since their invention

The yield improvement process seems like it has a lot common with e.g. baking and intuition.

Sure, at the invention/research step, after that’s done it’s all about sequencing the exact series of steps (robots following the recipe) to get to the output.

Software development is the invention/research phase; software distribution is the automated phase.

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