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vik @vikhyatk

2026-09-08 — saved image

vik [verified] @vikhyatk · 12h

a pivotal moment in young vik's life was when he went and peeked at the dynamodb source code while working at amazon. coolest web service ever. code was complete slop. it wasn't cool because the code was good. it was because of top notch operations

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vik [verified] @vikhyatk · 20h

if you can tell the difference between code written by sol and astra, it means you are still looking at code and are therefore ngmi

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@firesidealpha

2026-08-30 — saved image

Fireside Alpha @firesidealpha · 7h
SemiAnalysis' Jordan Nanos reveals the OpenAI engineers scrolling their own kernel code had no idea what it did line by line, and it didn't matter because the AI does

"It's not slop, because it performs, but it's literally just AI-generated assembly basically puked out in Gluon, this low-level kernel programming language that they built on top of Triton, which uses this really interesting programming model."

"The point is, the guys who were scrolling through this code with us, it was kind of clear that they know a whole bunch about hardware, they know a whole bunch about the concepts in the system, and they just have no idea what this MLA kernel that they're showing us for DeepSeek actually does."

"You can go line by line and it's like nope, nope, nope."

"But it doesn't matter. The AI understands it, the AI tests it, and you see the results. It produces correct kernels that perform really well."

"And I think this is just a sign of what's to come again."

"That actual code is not necessarily something that a human has to reason about deeply, if the AI knows how to manipulate the data movement and the processing elements on the hardware that you've given it."

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