Oh I see what you're saying. It's analogous to the old Beowulf cluster jokes.

That's basically the computer I want: 64 thousand cores with high speed interconnect appearing as a single address space (ideally on a single chip) so I can finally get real work done on embarrassingly parallel workloads that currently require me to switch to a different level of abstraction with shaders or Python math frameworks or whatever. I just want to be able to do ordinary C-style shell programming, piping immutable data around, without having to worry whether the data's on the video card or anywhere else. Which currently isn't possible at scale affordably.

What use would the typical user have for such a thing? Not much. I'm probably looking too far ahead to solve problems which people don't know exist yet.

For example, I wanted this computer to evolve something like GitHub Copilot back around 2005 after reading Genetic Programming III by John Koza. It would basically fill in the code automagically for TDD. Which would liberate programmers from the minutia that even then had swallowed all of their time.

Now we have these new tools making that possible, albeit in a roundabout way that took many thousands of developers many years of concerted effort to achieve. My heart's not in that kind of approach. I wanted to keep things simple and generic and have computers do most of the work via better compilers, using existing languages with no special intrinsics or libraries. So we'd write ordinary for-loops in C for our own blitters, not have to deal with the additional mental workload of learning and dealing with the idiosyncrasies of OpenCL or CUDA.

And that goes for everything. I don't want React, I want a DOM that isn't slow. I want all databases to emit events like Supabase and Firebase. I want all data structures to be immutable unless marked mutable, in order to avoid promises and monads. I want pattern matching, and avoiding the use of null in data structures. I want duck typing, not inheritance. I wish that the "final" and "sealed" keywords were illegal. I wish that we could hook into and/or override any getter and setter, to allow for more reactivity in our programs. I want doubly-linked references or some way to detect what's watching my state variables. I wish that all languages had aspect-oriented programming. Heck, I wish that more languages had macros. What we thought was "simpler" ended up just being "easier", which stranded us on the local maximums we're on today.

Just on and on and on. I feel like I'm on a different programming branch than the rest of the world is. Probably because I'm looking at solving problems outside of the profit motive. Which makes me feel crazy some days, or at the very least beat down and exhausted. It's been going on so long that I feel used up. Like even if someone gave me the tools I need, I don't know if I can summon the wherewithal to make use of them anymore. I mostly think about stuff like switching careers and running away. Maybe it's up to the next generation now.

Edit: that was a bit negative, I'm sorry. I've been trying to be more like Riva on Star Trek TNG and turn a disadvantage into an advantage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA6ijml7rUw

I tend to perceive the negative due to my years as a software developer, so I've become risk-adverse. With so much bad news on social media, I perceive the world as ending on a daily basis. So I've been trying to seek the positive and stay in an upward spiral. Like how you suggested with getting funding. I just don't know where to begin with something like that, or who to talk to.