DeepSeek kernel engineer's poignant essay on AI making his own craft obsolete
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-15
DeepSeek kernel engineer Shengyu Liu (interestingLSY) published a striking blog post, translated by teortaxesTex: from ChatGPT's early thousand-token stumbles to reasoning models (o1, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K1.5 Thinking) took two years; to today's tool-wielding agents took another 1.5 years. Part one is his personal struggle as his work renders his beloved craft obsolete; part two draws conclusions the translator 'agrees with'—an unusually candid admission from a frontier-lab systems engineer.
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