Peking University supercomputing ex-captain: AI will write kernels better than him within a year
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-15
A former captain of Peking University's supercomputing team — reportedly among the world's best university HPC squads, with #1 and #2 finishes at top competitions — judges that within one year AI will write kernels better than he does, and it may already do so if you don't mind the upfront compute.
- The poster adds context that "Shengyu" is one of the world's best active high-performance computing experts, lending weight to the prediction.
- The post also cites the DeepSeek v4.1 release as raising the ceiling of small models again, referencing a longer essay titled "I Have No Choice but to Bury My Talent in Yesterday" about AI progressing far faster than anyone expected.
- Takeaway: even top human HPC specialists now concede AI is at or near parity on highly specialized systems-level coding.
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