A DeepSeek engineer expects AI to replace his favorite work within a year
Liu Shengyu, the DeepSeek engineer who wrote V4.1’s main attention kernel, expects AI to write kernels as well as he does within six months to a year, putting the pressure on specialized software work rather than necessarily his job. His essay says the practical loss is hand-writing and optimizing code he loves, even as he continues building faster systems; the post drew more than 100,000 WeChat reads and reached number one on Zhihu’s hot list.