Chris Lattner: Modular is the "anti AI compiler" — tinygrad-style approaches never scaled
clattner_llvm · x · 2026-08-22
After developer rhatr observed that "Mojo/MAX design is basically anti-tinygrad," Modular founder Chris Lattner replied that Modular is the only team that can do what it does because it intentionally took a different path. He called Modular more of an "anti AI compiler," implying that tinygrad-style AI-generated-kernel approaches make great demos but have never scaled to the full generality of accelerator hardware at full performance.
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