Khaled Alashmouny

Apple Silicon for 13 years. Now building the native AI multiplayer platform for chip co-design .. AIDAChip

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

The semiconductor industry will spend $300B+ on R&D by 2032.

~70% is labor. ~40% of that labor is lost to coordination overhead.

That's $84B in recoverable productivity.

Not by making tools faster. By eliminating the work that has nothing to do with engineering.

That's not a feature. That's a market.

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

Be honest: what percentage of your engineering week is actual engineering?

I spent 20 years thinking it was "most of it." Then I actually mapped it.

The answer was 30%.

The other 70% was workflow friction and coordination overhead.

What's your number?

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

The coordination problem in chip design resonates immediately with anyone who's lived through a tape-out.

But it's hard to talk about publicly — because no company wants to admit their teams were misaligned.

That silence is exactly why the problem persists. Nobody has shared vocabulary for it.

So I'm going to keep naming it:

Coordination Tax
Silent Divergence
The 70% non-innovation problem
If you feel it, you're not alone.

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

53% of semiconductor workers said they were likely to leave in McKinsey's 2023 survey.

The #1 reason? Not pay. Not work-life balance.

Lack of career development. They want to do meaningful work.

Your best engineers don't leave for money. They leave because they're not doing engineering.

We need 60,000+ more designers by 2030 and can't keep the ones we have.

The fix isn't hiring faster. It's eliminating the 70% of non-engineering work that's driving them out.

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

Had a rough day?
Boss annoyed you?
Deadline slipped?

Thinking maybe you should just move to Silicon Valley, join Big Tech, and finally “make it”?

Sure.
The campuses are beautiful.
The compensation is real.
The stock grants are life-changing.

But so are federal taxes.

And a portion of those taxes funds weapons and foreign policies that:

• Kill innocent civilians
• Tarnish the moral standing of a nation
• Prolong conflicts that serve power more than people

The dream job doesn’t cancel conscience.

Success doesn’t erase responsibility.
Comfort doesn’t eliminate accountability.

You may sleep tonight after a frustrating day at work.
But many in those glass buildings wrestle with a heavier question:

What is my prosperity entangled with?

We all say we want to change the world.
But changing the world isn’t just shipping great products, earning well, or becoming influential.

History doesn’t move because comfortable people stay comfortable.
It moves when people decide that staying silent hurts more than speaking up.

As I often say:

“Success begins when the pain of regret outweighs the pain of sacrifice.”

At some point, every professional must choose:
Is comfort greater than conscience?
Or is integrity worth the cost?

Because in the end, freedom isn’t just about income.
It’s about alignment.

And alignment requires courage.

[Arshan Ahmad @arshanmahmad]

When are Muslims and humanity going to wake up?

We're either patting ourselves on the back by putting together a suhoor fest, or too scared to talk because we are subservient to the pedophile industrial complex. Read the epstein files, and if your blood doesn't boil, you've lost your humanity.

We need to start making progress before it's too late. Start building something big that will give us that leverage. No more smash burgers. No more "I convinced my slave master to put a Ramadan background and we have made such progress!"

Spend the nights in worship of our Creator, ask him for help, and have the courage to build. Work together. I need your help. And I can help. I will invest in the best ideas with Friday Ventures. And there is amazing Muslim talent that can help us build PureFi. We need your help.

OpenAI wants our data. The Palantir CEO is coked out of his mind and wants us killed. The Airbnb cofounder hates us and wants us out of the country. This is our modern jihad. We must work with our fellow citizens to get rid of those in power who are all pedos.

85 of our daughters have died because the President is a pedophile. 30,000 of our children have been slaughtered because these jews want to have sex with young girls. How many young girls were taken advantage on that island? They may not have been Muslim, but humanity is still our responsibility. My stomach twists just thinking about this.

I'm convinced the only way out of this nightmare is through building economic power. Join us and...

Wake up! My DMs are open if you want to help.

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

7/7: The industry is investing billions in making engineers faster.

But speed was never the bottleneck.

The question isn't "how fast can each engineer work?"

It's "how aligned can the team stay while everyone executes?"

That's the question I'm obsessed with.

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

After 20 years in chip design, I mapped where engineering time actually goes.

The answer surprised even me.

A thread on the real bottleneck in semiconductor design:

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

6/7: This is what I call the Coordination Tax.

~70% of silicon failures trace to spec misalignment and handoff breakdowns. Not physics. Not manufacturing.

Communication failures between teams.

No amount of individual productivity improvement pays it down.

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

@bcherny , now that we can control our Claude code using the phone app, it would be fantastic to add a simple way to schedule tasks and skills. We can use cron jobs but an easier logistical method to embody that would be more helpful

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

@ahmd3ssam @claudeai @bcherny I used Happy coder for that so far

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

Meet HAND: How to Build and Run a Team of AI Teammates https://t.co/UbCtxis6jY

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

A free workshop on using AI for silicon engineering is posted on AIDAChip website.

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

The Coordination Tax: The Hidden Bottleneck Killing Chip Schedules https://t.co/CFbvJunr8c

If you've ever felt you spend more time reconstructing intent than creating it—you've paid the coordination tax.

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

This article is a humble gift to silicon engineers thinking seriously about the future.

https://t.co/gTs6zlF8Ru

[Khaled Alashmouny @ashmouny]

@awadallah @vectara Excited to hear about the next chapter. May Allah lead you to the most impactful path.
While I’m not in the same position, the decision to let go is intertwined with a decision to not look back.
Best of luck and looking forward to getting more and more inspiration from you.