You’re Optimizing the Wrong Layer of AI. The Real Performance Gold Is Hiding in the Kernels.
The AI world obsesses over model architecture while ignoring the layer that actually determines performance: GPU kernels. The generic kernels powering most models are a convenience tax costing you latency, GPU hours, and deployment feasibility. The real frontier of AI optimization isn’t a new transformer variant — it’s rewriting the computational primitives that run on the metal.