"We wrote the whole inference engine by hand — one year ago"
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-10-29
YuchenjUW recounts a conversation with a friend whose team hand-wrote a fast inference engine for image models just a year ago — and both marvel at how radically AI coding has changed that in only twelve months.
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