Hand Optimized Kernels

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Stuart: ParallelKittens matches hand-optimized kernels in 50 to 100 lines
“And what we find is that with roughly 50 to 100 lines of device code, PK is able to surpass or match hand-optimized kernels that are often hundreds to thousands lines of code.”
Stuart (Stu) Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 20:38 Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator

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