In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue their chat with Mark Saroufim about autoresearch, productionizing AI-generated GPU kernels, GPU MODE, books, video games and more!

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Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation, PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-07-20
Date Released: 2026-09-18

• Core Automation
• GPU MODE
• PyTorch
• ADSP Episode 294: Histocache
• CUB Library
• QR GPU MODE Problem
• Modal
• GPU MODE Lecture 108: One Layer Deeper competition
• onelayerdeeper.ai
• The Peterman Pod
• Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On What Grew His Career And Building at Anthropic (Peterman Pod)
• Permutation City by Greg Egan
• A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
• Mark's Bookshelf
• Mark's Top 10 Books
• Journey to the Ants
• Visual Group Theory
• The Theory of Fun
• Working with Legacy Code
• The Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
• Game Theoretic Foundations for Probability and Finance
• NVFP4 GPU MODE Problem
• laplace-torch

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue their chat with Mark Saroufim about open vs closed models, numerical correctness, AI-generated GPU kernels, autoresearch and more!

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Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation, PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-07-20
Date Released: 2026-09-11

• Core Automation
• GPU MODE
• PyTorch
• QR GPU MODE Problem
• NVFP4 GPU MODE Problem
• laplace-torch

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Mark Saroufim about his path from AI theory and Microsoft to Graphcore and PyTorch, what he learned from open source, building the GPU MODE community, and his work automating AI systems research at Core Automation.

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Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation, PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-07-20
Date Released: 2026-09-04

• Core Automation
• GPU MODE
• Graphcore
• The Robot Overlord Manual
• Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation
• PyTorch

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about the future of technical communities, AI fluency, Conor's existential crisis, Auto Research Academy and more!

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Date Recorded: 2026-08-12
Date Released: 2026-08-28

• GOSIM Conferences
• Modal
• EURO PYTHON
• GPU MODE

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce celebrate the 300th episode fo ADSP by catching up with Sean Parent!

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Sean Parent is a principal scientist and software architect for Adobe Photoshop. Sean has been at Adobe since 1993 when he joined as a senior engineer working on Photoshop and later managed Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-08-19
Date Released: 2026-08-21

• POD GOD
• CppCast
• cpp.chat
• Sean Parent - Papers and Presentations
• ADSP Episode 299: Do We Need Humans in the Loop?
• NVIDIA CCCL
• cel-rs
• Stepanov Papers
• Bob Tarjan
• Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm
• Soylent Green is people!
• Claude Code
• The Last Emperor - A Gentleman
• Jonathon Blow on the Quality of Software (Software is in Decline)
• Lean Programming Language
• Dafny Programming Language
• Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg
• autoresearch

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce discuss the role of humans in the loop with AI and code review in the age of AI.

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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-08-12
Date Released: 2026-08-14

• Red-tailed Hawk
• Broad-winged Hawk

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In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about the design of APIs, UIs & algorithms!

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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-07-22
Date Released: 2026-08-07

• C++Now 2018: Ben Deane “Easy to Use, Hard to Misuse: Declarative Style in C++”
• NDC Toronto UI talk
• The Design of Everyday Things
• About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
• User Interface Design For Programmers
• Just My Type
• The Elements of Typographic Style

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In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about networking in FPS vs RTS video games, the state of the video game industry and more!

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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-07-22
Date Released: 2026-07-31

• Real-time strategy (RTS)
• First-person shooter (FPS)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Return of the Obra Dinn

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In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about video games, working in the video game industry and more!

• Link to Episode 296 on Website
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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-07-22
Date Released: 2026-07-24

• videogamedunkey
• CppCast
• The Witness
• The Witness - A Great Game That You Shouldn't Play
• Jonathan Blow on Bad Video Game Criticism

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about CityStrides, graph algorithms, GPT 5.6 Solver, and more!

• Link to Episode 295 on Website
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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-07-13
Date Released: 2026-07-17

• ADSP Episode 149: CityStrides.com, Graph Algorithms and More!
• Carlo de Lorenzi: Toronto runner with terminal brain cancer runs every street in the city
• Carlo's fundraiser for Community Music Schools of Toronto Foundation
• CityStrides.com
• Open Street Maps
• city-strides-hacking GitHub Repo
• Hamiltonian Path
• Eulerian Path
• Episode 220: Graph Algorithms & 7 Bridges of Königsberg
• NVIDIA cuopt

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