AI can write CUDA kernels now — engineers pivot to verification and hardware expertise
anneouyang · x · 2026-10-03
Standard Kernel cofounder anneouyang spoke with Business Insider about how kernel engineering is changing as AI generates CUDA kernels:
- The job is shifting from hand-writing kernels to building systems that make AI-generated kernels usable: helping agents learn new hardware, improving search and feedback
- Generation is getting cheap, but correctness verification is the hard part — kernels can look faster on benchmarks yet fail in production due to race conditions, stream interactions, and output reuse bugs
- Verification methods and deep hardware expertise are becoming central to the role
Standard Kernel is building that infrastructure.
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