Mind boggling to me that I can make a thing faster and there's always people that ask "but why?" What kind of mentality is that? The pursuit of excellence does not need justification. Also, I find in so many cases, we can't know the impact of an improvement until we do it. For example, one I've talked about before: Ghostty's high IO throughput has enabled terminal program (emulator and TUI) fuzzing at a speed thats incomparably fast to prior solutions. This has resulted in upstream patches to resolve issues in popular projects like btop, tmux, and more. Speed enabled that anecdotally example that lifted the tides of adjacent communities that don't rely on Ghostty technology at all. I didn't predict this. Make things better because they can be better and let the results naturally play out.

Mind Robotics, the startup founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, has now raised over $1 billion for its AI-powered industrial robot project, valuing the company at $3.4 billion. The latest fundraising round, which secured $400 million, was led by Kleiner Perkins and includes investments from Salesforce Ventures and Incharge Capital, a Volkswagen-affiliated venture-capital firm, The Wall Street Journal reports.