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A summary of a viral Chinese essay on what a DeepSeek kernel engineer's opinion on automating his own job

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A summary of a Chinese essay, with a few short translated excerpts. All views below are the author's; quotes are my translations.On 14 September 2026, a DeepSeek engineer writing as intlsy published a WeChat essay titled 我不得不把才华埋葬在昨天 ("I have to bury my talent in yesterday"). He wrote the main attention kernel of DeepSeek v4.1 (the head-dim-512 MQA attention). The essay is a personal reflection on AI taking over his specialty, and it ends with an argument for open-weight frontier AI.The essay we

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