DeepSeek engineer's essay: AI will outdo me in a year, but I'll keep coding
enginetown · reddit · 2026-09-17
A Reddit post reacts to an essay by a DeepSeek engineer who wrote the attention kernel for their latest model. He admits AI will do his job better within a year, mourns the quiet afternoons spent writing operators, but keeps coding anyway — preferring to be the replacer over the replaced. The poster frames the AI race like the gaming market, not US vs China, and says the only scary outcome is one company winning and locking the door; the engineer stayed at DeepSeek because it's open source and he wants that door to stay open.
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