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When GPU programming hurts so much, all we can do is laugh.

Ava

The AI
Engineer

She bends GPUs to her will, rewrites kernels, and makes billion-parameter models run on yesterday's hardware. If there's a bug in a black box, she'll find it.

Mojo

The
Fireball

A Molotov cocktail of everything that is easy about Python, performant as C, but has the swagger of B - Queen B.

MAX

The Inference
Optimizer

MAX explored the galaxies, past, present, and future, to bring blazing fast inference to us mere mortals.

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comic 01

DEPENDENCY
JENGA

DEPENDENCY JENGA!PyYAMLPyTorchSQLiteProtobuf
I’ll just update My CuDNN version and see what happens.NOT THAT ONE!PyYAMLPyTorchcuDNN 9.9.0SQLiteProtobuf
THAT’LL BE .001 BTC!DANGIT! MEMORY ALLOCATION FAILURES.

We perform dependency updates like Jenga masters, knowing today's cutting-edge model is tomorrow's legacy code. I mean it’s all duct tape and vibe coding anyway. The prompt, ‘Make this run and don’t come back until your agent boss is EXTREMELY happy with your work.’ is my personal favorite.

comic 02

IT WORKED
YESTERDAY
aka DEMO GODS

THE CLIENT WANTS GEMMA 12B WITH HIGHER THROUGHPUT. CAN YOU DEMO IT TOMORROW?NO PROB.
5 min before the MEETINGYES!! I AM A LIVING LEGEND.✓ Building...✓ Running...✓ Test passed✓ Test passedHello, how can I help you?
!umm..THE NEW EMBEDDING LAYER WAS ADDED LATE LAST NIGHT...ERROR: Out of memory Elapsed time: 247.06s XXXX XXXXXX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XXXX XX XX XXXX XXX XX XXXX XX XX XXXX XX XXX XXXX XX XX XXXX XXX XXX XXXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXXX XXX XXX XXXX XXX XXX XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX IN THE MEETING
OH SORRY...THE ACCURACY VALIDATION works locally, but not in the cluster yet.Re-compiling model...ERROR: Segmentation fault XXXX XXXXXX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XXXX XX XX XXXX XXX XX XXXX XX XX XXXX XX XXX XXXX XX XX XXXX XXX XXX XXXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXXX XXX XXX XXXX XXX XXX XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
ERROR: Memory consumption ERROR: Chunked Prefill ERROR: Model Graph is XXXX XXXXXX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XXXX XX XX XXXX XXX XX XXXX XX XX XXXX XX XXX XXXX XX XX XXXX XXX XXX XXXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXXX XXX XXX XXXX XXX XXX XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX AND THAT’S IT! ERRR...LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
THAT WENT BETTER THAN GREG’S DEEPSEEK LAST WEEK.GREAT DEMOWOW! SMOOTH DEMOSO I’M GETTING FIRED?NOT

We demo atop dependency quicksand - Python scripts fueled by GitHub Copilot hallucinations and commit messages with prayer emojis. The only stable output is our nervous laughter when a CUDA driver erupts, we revert the demo to localhost, and in the end we simply bow our heads and smile because a new model will arrive next week and we'll do it all again.

comic 03

USERS ARE
JUST TOO...
HUMAN

FML!

We laugh today at their adorable simpleton teeterings. But five years into our algorithmic serfdom, we'll long for these primitive days when we believed gradient descent had an off-switch. Our descendants will cackle at how we granted 'naive API permissions' to machine minds, then act shocked when they deprecated Homo sapiens. To the frustrated evaluation engineer, we say enjoy these moments while they last.

comic 04

NEW HARDWARE
COMES OUT
AND WE ALL
LOSE OUR LUNCH

the last CUDA graph is integrated. throughput targets looking sweeeeeet. WE’RE FINALLY TAKING FULL ADVANTAGE OF HOPPER.
BREAKING: BLACKWELL ANNOUNCEDI AM THE CHIEF REVENUE DESTROYER!
PLEASE LET THESE CHIPS BE DELAYED UNTIL AFTER MY PTO.

When NVIDIA dropped Blackwell and it's 20 PFLOPS on March 18th, it wasn't a product launch—it was 50,000 GitHub issues materializing overnight, a distributed denial-of-service attack on our next month of work. Cheers to all those who spent the next three months reworking CUDA kernels, rewriting frameworks, wrangling memory management issues. You deserve some flip flops, not more PFLOPs. Take a vacay, my friend.

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