{"slug": "saad-nasir-demos-10xengineer-s-agentic-approach-to-programming-modern-gpus-npus", "title": "Saad Nasir demos 10xEngineer's Agentic approach to programming modern GPUs, NPUs and anything else that claims to be an AI accelerator", "summary": "Saad Nasir demonstrated 10xEngineers' \"Agentic compiler\" for the first time on Aug 25, 2026, in Palo Alto at the Cool Chips - Hot Takes community gathering organized by AiNEKKO, AIFoundry, OpenHW Foundation, and 10xEngineers. The agentic approach targets programming modern GPUs, NPUs, and other AI accelerators, with Nasir's team having previously applied it to the ET-SOC-1 edge accelerator, drawing comparisons to OpenAI's Jalapeno work presented at Hot Chips. The closed-loop system runs input through optimization, expert approval, implementation, real-hardware validation, documentation, and feedback, prioritizing speed and cost efficiency over brute-force LLM search.", "body_md": "On Aug 25, 2026, in Palo Alto, we got together for **Cool Chips - Hot Takes**, an independent community gathering organized by **AiNEKKO, AIFoundry, OpenHW Foundation, and 10xEngineers**. \n\nSaad demoed for the first time the \"Agentic compiler\".  People who actually listened to OpenAI talk on Jalapeno at Hot Chips or had time to catch up on their blog post, got to appreciate the similarities of the that to what Saad’s team did on the ET-SOC-1 edge accelerator.  The similarity does not end at the trajectory of the graph, the system has to be fast (velocity is the differentiation and harness with domain knowledge helps), cost-efficient (don't just throw LLMs on a large search space; time and $ are still of importance to many), closed-loop ( input --> optimization (explore or exploit) --> expert approval --> implementation --> validation on real hardware --> documentation --> feedback --> repeat), and human (for now) and machine verifiable (expert approval goes a long way; some human still has to own it). \n\nWithout much more spoilers watch the demo - the numbers and the time and cost of gettin go those numbers is  really impressive and that’s just the beginning.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saad-nasir-demos-10xengineer-s-agentic-approach-to-programming-modern-gpus-npus", "canonical_source": "https://blog.aifoundry.org/p/saad-nasir-demos-10xengineers-agentic", "published_at": "2026-09-04 11:45:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-11 22:51:17.962450+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-chips", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Saad Nasir", "10xEngineers", "Agentic compiler", "ET-SOC-1", "OpenAI", "Jalapeno", "AiNEKKO", "OpenHW Foundation"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saad-nasir-demos-10xengineer-s-agentic-approach-to-programming-modern-gpus-npus", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saad-nasir-demos-10xengineer-s-agentic-approach-to-programming-modern-gpus-npus.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saad-nasir-demos-10xengineer-s-agentic-approach-to-programming-modern-gpus-npus.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saad-nasir-demos-10xengineer-s-agentic-approach-to-programming-modern-gpus-npus.jsonld"}}