Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch
THE SO WHAT
A GPT‑2 scale model in pure C/CUDA is another data point that core LLM capability is becoming a systems programming problem, not just a Python/ML stack. If you run performance- or security-sensitive workloads, start mapping where lean, self-hosted models could replace heavier, opaque stacks.
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