Pranjal

Claude code this Claude code that How about u Claude code to get urself some bitches

attention kernels that are faster than flashinfer!

This is my favorite clip of the new Elon pod. He opens up saying xAI struggles with memory usage/bandwidth and CUDA kernel optimization (matmul, attention, MoE, etc). If you are good kernel or performance engineering in general, you should apply. Steer the world in a better direction.

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.

Pauli, Heisenberg and Fermi at Lake Como.