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I had a hard time understanding why didn’t AMD make a better developer experience for this two years ago, and am now even more baffled that even with all the LLMs they still don’t seem to have moved a single inch, despite this probably being a tens of billions dollars worth feature.

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LLMs make the dev environment almost irrelevant. llama.cpp supports AMD with both ROCm and Vulkan and that's nearly all that matters now. TBD how much AMD's AI Halo play will change things if at all, but they got a lot of positive press in launch reviews for having an actually robust software story for once.

Hardware companies are notoriously bad at software. The software they use sucks, the languages they use suck, the internal tooling software they write sucks.

They don't know what good developer experience is, how do you expect them to deliver it to other people?

I understand this; I would expect that a $50bn carrot would suffice to move the donkey, but it seems it does not.

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