alt Hacker News> But Hotz isn't crazy to test them in an odd way..
He should have just read the Lisa Su interview from Q1 2024 where ahe laid out AMDs strategy without equivocating
> ... although he'd probably be better off dropping AMD cards
I think this is what's best for everyone. Looking at his recent track record[1], he seems like a person who's gets really excited by kicking things off and experiencing the exponentially growth phase, and then when it flattens out into a sigmoid curve, he dusts his hands and declares his work done, and moves to the next thing.
. 1. Hired by Elon to "fix" Twitter, CommaAI, and soon, Tiny
> Looking at his recent track record[1]
One might argue he's had a pattern for even longer. While he did do some early hypervisor glitching, even his PS3 root key release was basically just applying fail0verflow's ECDSA exploit (fail0verflow didn't release the keys specifically because they didn't want to get sued ... so that was a pretty dick move [1]).
For his projects, I think it's important to look at what he's done that's cool (eg, reversing 7900XTX [2], creating a user-space driver that completely bypasses AMD drivers for compute [3]) and separating it from his (super cringe) social media postings/self-hype.
Still, at the end of the day, here's hoping that someone at AMD realizes that having terrible consumer and workstation support will basically continue to be a huge albatross/handicap - it cuts them off basically all academic/research development (almost every single ML library and technique you can name/used in production is CUDA first because of this) and the non-hyperscaler enterprise market as well. Any dev can get a PO for a $500 Nvidia GPU (or has one on their workstation laptop already). What's the pathway for ROCm? (honestly, if I were in charge, my #1 priority would be to make sure ROCm is installed and works w/ every single APU installed, even the 2CU ones).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_Am...
[2] https://github.com/tinygrad/7900xtx
[3] https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad/blob/master/docs/develo...