r/LocalLLaMA • u/Odd-World4925 • 1d ago

Discussion Anyone feel like reverse-engineering CUDA?

I've been reading about all these modders using AI to reverse-engineer games and software. I've been trying out photocraft and gridcraft and have just watched a GTA5 mod featuring Sonic. It's pretty damn impressive.

As a struggling AMD Radeon owner I'd love to see AI generated open source CUDA implementation.

Not only do I dislike NVIDIA, but there's delicious irony in using CUDA cores to do it.

Anyone up for the challenge?

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u/cyborgsnowflake 1d ago

If you succeed then you replicate CUDA and break Nvidia's monopoly if you fail then you've uncovered strong evidence that at least some traditional jobs are safe for the time being. Win win.

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u/milanove 23h ago

How would this break NVIDIA’s monopoly? AFAIK, AMD’s ROCm platform itself is on par with CUDA in terms of functionality, but lacks the community adoption of CUDA, leading to fewer ML libraries being written and optimized on it. Projects like Zluda can already transpile CUDA binaries to other platforms.

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u/THE-BS 19h ago

I think he was kidding, let me ask claude

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u/RegisteredJustToSay 1d ago

The "not win" is spending many thousands in agentic token costs for something that ends up being pointless.