Thomas Broadfoot 🍁👻

Electrical Engineer, PhD in VLSI and EDA. Founder TRAP-ICs — IP Protection and Hardware Security. All day. Every day. Building. Husband and Father.

[Thomas Broadfoot 🍁👻 @thomasbroadfoot]

Thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD dissertation,

“Transistor-Level Programmable Fabrics for Cost-Effective IC Redaction”

It’s been an incredible journey, and I’m grateful to everyone who supported me along the way. Here’s to the next chapter! #PhD #Graduation #HardwareSecurity

[Thomas Broadfoot 🍁👻 @thomasbroadfoot]

@altryne @satyanadella Better stop using evaporative cooling then

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@theaaron @juliandropsit @OpenAIDevs @ajambrosino @jxnlco claude code can ssh into my linux and be present, codex can't without codex installed. which means i can remote control my claude code linux agent on my phone but not my codex guy.

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@fammetaX @grok AMD is the next AMD

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@WhitakerTA_ China entered Ukraine war?

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@gorandjenadic @TFTC21 It won’t “level the playing field,” instead it will make the gap far far worse.

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@karpathy maybe X should render html

[Thomas Broadfoot 🍁👻 @thomasbroadfoot]

Teach AI in Parables.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

High-quality documents based on Claude’s constitution, combined with fictional stories that portray an aligned AI, can reduce agentic misalignment by more than a factor of three—despite being unrelated to the evaluation scenario.

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@Tesla_Optimus @elonmusk I know right! We need to start protecting the rights of these individuals!

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@alexocheema Now do tokens/s/mm^2

TALOSv2 will smoke your M4 on that metric.

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@Chris53626784 @alexocheema Paradigm shift is an overreach. People have implemented full ASICs, emulators of SoCs, these systems are generally trade secrets.

[Thomas Broadfoot 🍁👻 @thomasbroadfoot]

If the designed system has no mechanism to validate it’s outputs, it shouldn’t be vibe coded.

However, when validation and regression is in scope for every task, failures drop dramatically.

V&V must be automatic and Agents should take part in the process. They should have skills written for that purpose.

[Thomas Broadfoot 🍁👻 @thomasbroadfoot]

@pdoocy The guy behind him is like “I’m gonna give you an exclusive look at ….”

Not sure they know what exclusive means.

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@DarkSideAdvcate @SpencerHakimian LooksMax3000

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@MetabolicFactor Oats

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@felixprehn In Dallas all of our lakes are extremely full this year. We can’t use the water fast enough.

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@contextconor Palantir’s Ontology is the key

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

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[Thomas Broadfoot 🍁👻 @thomasbroadfoot]

@DataChaz Also add Ontology like Palantir. And create multiple experts on top of it. CEO, CTO, CFO, Chief Council, Chief of Staff.

[Thomas Broadfoot 🍁👻 @thomasbroadfoot]

@ArtemXTech Everyone wants a second brain. Everyone talks about Palantir. Build Ontology for your Second Brain. Then build experts on top of it. Give them motivation, a mission. Goals achieve them selves. This is the way.

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@InnovatingCoin I didn't realize they can go to North Park Mall. That's cool