DeepSeek V4.1 Operator Author Responds Again: AI Didn't Take My Job, It Took the Way I Like to Work

Beating AI News Flash: DeepSeek operator engineer Liu Shengyu has once again published an article responding to the various interpretations after "I Had to Bury My Talent in Yesterday" went viral. He said that what he truly wanted to express was not unemployment anxiety, nor the dispute over the routes of DeepSeek and Anthropic, but rather that AI is making him bid farewell to the way of working he once loved.

In the past, when writing operators, he typed out most of the code character by character. He enjoyed slowly pondering code structure, variable naming, and scheduling schemes, then pushing performance higher bit by bit, until surpassing Flash Attention and NVIDIA's official implementation, and even conquering tasks that were previously considered very difficult to optimize.

But now AI already works faster than he does, and in the future it will become both fast and good. For the sake of efficiency and performance, he must study how to make Agents better at writing operators. Handwriting operators and even programming may in the future, like hunting with a javelin, gradually turn from a production activity into a form of entertainment or competition.

Liu Shengyu said that he is relatively optimistic about the future of AI and his personal situation. What he is truly pessimistic about is whether people will still be able to calm down and seriously do one thing in the future, and whether he himself can still treat work as a hobby over the long term. However, he will still continue to write operators, and will also continue to introduce AI Agents: "Rather than being eliminated by others, it is better to evolve yourself."