DeepSeek's Liu Shengyu clarifies viral post: a farewell to hand-written kernels, not job anxiety
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-15
DeepSeek researcher Liu Shengyu personally responded on Zhihu to interpretations of his viral essay "No Choice but to Bury My Talent in Yesterday." He clarified the piece wasn't about unemployment anxiety, but a farewell to the era of hand-writing kernels: before agents, he typed most of his code character by character — a process he actually enjoyed as a way to think through every detail.
Commentator teortaxesTex noted Liu felt compelled to clarify, and that he meant exactly what sensible readers took away. The exchange captures a top researcher's mixed feelings as the agent coding era arrives.
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