Solo dev open-sources 4 systems projects, asks engineers to roast them
Accomplished_Row1433 · reddit · 2026-09-21
Solo developer vermasarthak open-sourced four systems projects and asked for brutal feedback: TileForge (a tensor kernel compiler with a typed SSA IR and native Metal codegen), PagedServe (an LLM inference runtime with paged KV caching, continuous batching, prefix sharing and an experimental Metal backend), Oriel (an eval-driven model router using Wilson score confidence bounds), and Cairn (a Go + PostgreSQL durable execution framework). He wants honest critique on ideas, READMEs, missing benchmarks and overengineering.
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