This was a fun one - I placed 3rd at the Hackathon! What amazed me wasn’t the ranking, but how the top submissions were separated by just 0.003 us. When you’re operating at GPU scale, that tiny sliver of time feels massive.
Here’s to many more weekends spent optimizing kernels and pushing GPUs to their limits.
After 3 weeks, we have concluded our first problem of the @GPU_MODE x @nvidia competition, NVFP4 GEMV. Thanks to everyone who has participated, we have collected over 40k submissions from >200 users. Congrats to the winners and good luck with the next problem, NVFP4 GEMM 🔥
@Prince_Canuma@reach_vb Are you using Codex TUI? You can set it in the config file at ~/.codex/config.toml. I will have a .codex folder in the git root if it’s project specific
@ID_AA_Carmack "Coding was never the source of value, and people shouldn’t get overly attached to it. Problem solving is the core skill. The discipline and precision demanded by traditional programming will remain valuable transferable attributes, but they won’t be a barrier to entry."
I feel this too, and I’ve seen a lot of threads about AI draining the joy from coding. One perspective that really helped me came from @ID_AA_Carmack in an interview.
I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.