Grady Booch Jokes That Neural Nets Are Just NAND Gates Underneath

Software engineering hall-of-famer Grady Booch joked that beneath layers of abstraction, neural networks' matrix multiplications are just cleverly arranged NAND gates, adding that NAND and NOR are universal logic gates built from roughly a dozen transistors each.

2026-10-17 ~ 2026-10-17 · 2 related posts

• Grady Booch: all that AI matrix math is just cleverly arranged NAND gates — Grady_Booch · 2026-10-17
• Booch adds: NAND and NOR are universal gates built from ~a dozen transistors — Grady_Booch · 2026-10-17