Not a Thinkpad and not Intel, but that already seems attainable with the asus G14 (AMD 8945HS + NVIDIA 4070) or the upcoming asus zenbook S16 (AMD HX 370).
I've never seen a large company with more L7+ engineers than L7+ managers. Usually it's a ratio of drastically more managers hired/promoted into those levels than engineers, and some orgs don't have any engineers in those levels at all.
I prefer sticking with bash where necessary (where a script is the only thing that will reasonably work), and elsewhere using a programming language with testing, type checking, modularity, and compilation into something with zero or minimal runtime dependencies.
Looks like comparing apples and oranges. If Nim has a GC it would be more instructive to compare it with another garbage-collected systems language like OCaml.