# A DeepSeek engineer who wrote key compute kernels for V4.1 wrote an essay about what happens when AI starts replacing even the people building it, and what kind of future that could lead to.

*Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:29:52 GMT*

A DeepSeek engineer who wrote key compute kernels for V4.1 wrote an essay about what happens when AI starts replacing even the people building it, and what kind of future that could lead to.

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