compiler

also referred to as: compilers

4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 3, 2023 by Tri Dao · across every show →

Everything said about compiler, oldest first

Aug 3, 2023 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Compilers will automate complex kernel fusion within two years
“Maybe in a year or two, we'll, we'll have compilers that are able to do a lot of these optimizations for you, and you don't have to, for example, spend a couple months writing CUDA to get this stuff to work.”
Tri Dao Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 11:39 FlashAttention-2: Making Transformers 800% faster AND exact
Oct 11, 2024 neutral
Insight
Goyal: New Databases Succeed Only When Storage and Compilers Rewire Together
“So in my observation, database companies tend to succeed when the storage paradigm Is closely tied to the execution paradigm, and both of those things need to be rewired to work. I think, remember, the databases are not just storage, but they're also compilers…”
Ankur Goyal Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 1:16:44 Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
Aug 18, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Sohmers: Positron AI requires zero compilers to run Hugging Face models
“So rather than having like, we don't have a compiler whatsoever. There's no compiler. There's no translator, no tooling that's involved in actually taking those and getting that to, you know, for your common, you know, Huggy Face Transform models to be able to…”
Thomas Sohmers Aug 18, 2025 ▶ 21:32 ⚡️Accelerators @ 3x NVIDIA H200 perf, Made in the USA - Thomas Sohmers + Mitesh Agrawal, Positron AI
Aug 18, 2025 negative
Insight
Sohmers: Requiring workload recompilation creates fatal friction for AI chip adoption
“If you are requiring a user or having yourself as the company needing to actually recompile a workload, that's already one step too far, even if you assume it works perfectly.”
Thomas Sohmers Aug 18, 2025 ▶ 21:05 ⚡️Accelerators @ 3x NVIDIA H200 perf, Made in the USA - Thomas Sohmers + Mitesh Agrawal, Positron AI
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