alt Hacker NewsIs CUDA still a moat? Are we not at the point where frontier models can reimplement software stacks, given you throw enough tokens at the problem.
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alightsoul • today at 4:47 AM
if you are developing your own hardware, you provide your own stack to avoid lawsuits with nvidia. i don't think it's a technical problem at all, but a legal one. this is probably why zluda was scrapped by AMD and Intel. Nvidia technically bans the creation of CUDA reimplementations in their TOS if i remember correctly
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someothherguyy • today at 10:12 AM
i haven't seen it. see the recent browser attempts.
aurareturn • today at 7:22 AM
You still need experts to know what is good and what is not.
If you are making a decision to spend 50B on hardware, would you use the proven tech stack or rely on engineers taking an unspecified amount of time vibecoding your software stack while the hardware sits idle?
How about in a month or so when you have to run a slightly different workload?