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December 16, 2027
In 14 monthsYou spend weeks optimizing code that your successor will write instantly.
Expert at making silicon sweat in specific patterns.
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You hand-tune tensor kernels for specific hardware architectures to minimize latency and memory bandwidth consumption.
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You can still intuit which assembly instructions will trigger an obscure hardware pipeline stall.
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Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 2
Smart monitors start tracking every cycle of your manual optimization effort.
Month 3
Heuristic search engines begin exploring the entire kernel design space faster.
Month 6
Synthesis models write kernels that outperform your best manual assembly code.
Month 9
Your proprietary ISA is abstracted behind a fully automated compiler stack.
Month 14 · D-Day
Hardware engineers click 'Deploy' and your manual tuning skills become historical artifacts.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 98%
99.9%
Cycles spent micro-optimizing
40/week
Kernel hand-tuning hours
High
Compiler-induced existential dread
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