Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding

Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable … · Jul 15, 2026 Technology

When Intel offered to help Apple port macOS to x86, Jobs dropped a bombshell: 'I've been working on that for the last 4 releases.' Jobs had been quietly preparing Apple's core technology for a potential future switch for years before anyone at Intel suspected. This foresight — building optionality in secret — is what made Apple Silicon inevitable. Expand

Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable … · Jul 15, 2026 Technology

At Intel's CPU peak, the company literally laughed at NVIDIA's machines. GPUs were for gamers, not serious compute. But Jensen Huang kept building a deeper software stack — CUDA, SIMD, multi-threading — until Japanese HPC researchers realized these 'graphics cards' could tackle the world's hardest workloads. Intel even had its own answer, Project Larrabee, killed the week Gelsinger left. Expand

Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable … · Jul 15, 2026 Technology

TSMC's original vision — become the factory for the entire semiconductor industry — seemed so niche that Intel didn't take it seriously. Intel was vertically integrated and proprietary; TSMC standardized everything and welcomed any customer. Steady progress and a demanding Apple drove them from irrelevant to producing 5x Intel's wafer volume by 2021, now 7x. Expand

Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable … · Jul 15, 2026 Technology

The AI buildout has a natural circuit breaker: energy. Nobody builds data centers without power, and global energy capacity is expanding at just 4–5% per year. That constraint limits how overheated the market can get. Meanwhile the value of a token — a unit of intelligence — is nearly infinite if it improves logistics, finance, and labor. Gelsinger sees two decades of growth, not years. Expand

Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable … · Jul 15, 2026 Technology

Quantum has been '5 years away' for 25 years — but Gelsinger says this time is different. We now know how to build qubits, error-correct them, and write algorithms against them. Multiple modalities (trapped ions, photonic, spin) are all showing results. Engineering scale is the only remaining challenge, and he expects quantum supremacy across multiple industries before 2030, with encryption-breaking Q-Day around 2032–2033. Expand

Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable … · Jul 15, 2026 Technology

Four out of five Lovable users have zero engineering background. They're first-time founders, enterprise employees building side hustles, and small business owners figuring out what to build. The 20% who are technical use Lovable because it enforces best practices automatically — secure payments, security scans, architecture guardrails — things even developers appreciate not managing manually. Expand

Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable … · Jul 15, 2026 Technology

Jason Calacanis's Founder University program needed an intranet. Two years ago that would have been a $500,000 project — off the table. Instead, a non-technical program manager built it herself on Lovable in 4 to 8 hours, including economic impact calculators, without asking permission. Total cost: under $2,000. The software now powers the program in Saudi Arabia and Japan. Expand

Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable … · Jul 15, 2026 Technology

When a US nursing education company used Lovable to build custom scheduling, certification management, and admin tools, they didn't just save money — they replaced 10 separate software subscriptions and now save over $1 million per year. As building costs approach zero, every company will evaluate whether Salesforce, Slack, and HubSpot are still worth their price — or whether a bespoke alternative built in days beats them on fit and cost. Expand