Really exciting but it reads like Claude instead of what Nvidia posts have generally been like in the past. I don't need nor want my tech blogs to sound like a young adult novel.
Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
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I think implication being organizations with 40,000+ employees and even more consultants and contractors plus a lot of budget are also using LLMs to draft public facing content instead of paying for content writers or even just proof readers . It points to friction rather than cost economics. Same reason we are always surprised why multi billion dollar product companies with millions of install base prefer electron i…
This does not imply that the organization is not paying for content writers or proof readers. It does suggest that they are not getting the value of paying for content writers or proof readers.
No. It suggests they don't mind littering slop into the information environment.
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I get the impression that Nvidia employees don't care too much - I started seeing fully AI-written "documentation" on some of their smaller projects more than a year ago (i.e., before it was even slightly a good idea).
People never really read documentation before. Agents do read it now, and they seem to understand LLM-written text just fine.
>People never really read documentation before.
Speak for yourself. I read it.
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#115> The launch is checked rather than trusted. Damn even Nvidia is putting out fully Claude-written articles.
Even their writing skills are getting rusty.
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#116I strongly dislike CUDA. Once you have allowed that proprietary cr*p into your C++ codebase, it is very hard to get rid, and you end up with code that is either tied to a single vendor or an #ifdef hell, probably both. The best way to program GPUs is face up to the reality that they are not the same machine as the CPU, write your kernels in separate files, and launch them manually, like in Metal, OpenCL, and D3D12, e…
Having also played with Metal and WebGPU (at least years ago), I would say that CUDA is, amazingly, the best GPGPU API we have. Do I wish we had an open source parallel programming language as good or better than it? Yes. But asymmetrically hating on CUDA like this is how we continue to lag behind it in UX.
> The best way to program GPUs is face up to the reality that they are not the same machine as the CPU, write your kernels in separate files, and launch them manually
Not to mention that this is a completely sane way to use CUDA as well.
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I totally concur. I'm almost lost for words at this stage. I need me some land to grow vegetables on and that's about it. Maybe some chickens. Every single day brings more despair (and not the prosperity we were promised).
I have land and chickens, and I'm really excited about the future & AI.
Land, chickens, and private local AI running sustainably on the farm sounds like the least dystopian version of this AI future!
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Do you have the stomach to walk into a high school in the USA these days? Teachers use AI to generate assignments. Students feed the assignments to AI and submit the responses. Teachers feed the student submissions to an AI for grading.
Please tell me this is not true.
This is true even at the undergraduate level unfortunately…
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> People never really read documentation before. The heck you talking about? How do you think we wrote software for the last 50 years?
My absolute greatest skill in my career, that has consistently set me apart from my peers, is that I read documentation thoroughly. It is shocking how much of a differentiator this is. You will discover that the software you’re already using is much more capable than you realized.
The good news is your attention to actually reading and understanding documentation will differentiate you more and more as others (short-sighted, IMO) outsource understanding to an LLM.
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> even Nvidia Why "even Nvidia"? They are fully behind using AI for basically everything. What's next? "Damn, even McDonald's is putting out unhealthy food"
McDonald's food is not even that unhealthy. I just tried a Burger King burger the other day and it's terrible. I think it's like 2000 calories in a single burger or something.
> I think it's like 2000 calories in a single burger
that would be pretty cool, you can just get your entire day's calories from one burger