I'm doing my PhD in ML shit. Before that I was a systems programming guy, lots of C++, bit of CUDA, big fan of Rust. On the side I'm obsessed with RISC-V. Own a couple of boards. I made a stupid little cuda-like-compiler on top of the RISC-V vector extensions, just for fun.
What I'm saying is, tensorrent couldn't find a more excitable third-party developer if they grew one in a lab. And you know what? I can't make heads or tails out of all their various abstractions. I've tried! I've read the docs, I've read the examples, I've gone to meetups. I think OP is right that "one more abstraction bro" probably doesn't solve the problem.
At a guess, the problem isn't a technical one, it is an organizational one. They don't have anybody to stand in for me, or devs like me (eg dumb people). There is no product leadership on the API design. Just a lot of really brilliant engineers obsessively tuning for their own usecases, unwilling to ever trade-off a hit in performance or expressivity for readability or writeability.
What I'm saying is, tensorrent couldn't find a more excitable third-party developer if they grew one in a lab. And you know what? I can't make heads or tails out of all their various abstractions. I've tried! I've read the docs, I've read the examples, I've gone to meetups. I think OP is right that "one more abstraction bro" probably doesn't solve the problem.
At a guess, the problem isn't a technical one, it is an organizational one. They don't have anybody to stand in for me, or devs like me (eg dumb people). There is no product leadership on the API design. Just a lot of really brilliant engineers obsessively tuning for their own usecases, unwilling to ever trade-off a hit in performance or expressivity for readability or writeability.