DeepSeek Senior Engineer Pens Essay: After Delivering V4.1 Core Operator, AI-Driven Replacement Forces Career Shift

Liu Shengyu, a machine learning systems engineer at DeepSeek, published a long essay titled 'I Have to Bury My Talent in Yesterday' on his personal platform, describing how after delivering the core Attention operator for DeepSeek V4.1, he faces being replaced and forced to change careers due to AI's rapid progress in low-level engineering tasks like operator writing. The essay reviews his contributions to DeepGEMM, DeepEP V2, and the V4.1 main operator, and suggests AI's ability to autonomously design end-to-end极致 operators could match or surpass top human engineers within six months to a year.