Episode 304: The Agentic Era & Books with Mark Saroufim

In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue their chat with Mark Saroufim about autoresearch, productionizing AI-generated GPU kernels, GPU MODE, books, video games and more!

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About the Guest:

Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation, PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-07-20
Date Released: 2026-09-18

• Core Automation
• GPU MODE
• PyTorch
• ADSP Episode 294: Histocache
• CUB Library
• QR GPU MODE Problem
• Modal
• GPU MODE Lecture 108: One Layer Deeper competition
• onelayerdeeper.ai
• The Peterman Pod
• Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On What Grew His Career And Building at Anthropic (Peterman Pod)
• Permutation City by Greg Egan
• A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
• Mark's Bookshelf
• Mark's Top 10 Books
• Journey to the Ants
• Visual Group Theory
• The Theory of Fun
• Working with Legacy Code
• The Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
• Game Theoretic Foundations for Probability and Finance
• NVFP4 GPU MODE Problem
• laplace-torch

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