DeepSeek kernel engineer blogs on his craft becoming obsolete
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-15
Shengyu Liu (interestingLSY/intlsy), a kernel engineer at DeepSeek, published a striking blog post. Part one is his personal struggle with his own work rendering his beloved craft of hand-tuned kernels obsolete; part two is, per the poster, an admission that he agrees with where this is all heading.
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