Felix LeClair sits down with Ben Burtenshaw from Hugging Face to discuss how the Hugging Face Kernels ecosystem makes high-performance kernels easier to build, share, and run.
They cover agent-assisted kernel development, benchmarking results across model families, and why reproducible kernel infrastructure is key for broader hardware support.
## Chapters
0:00 Intro and guest welcome
0:23 What Hugging Face Kernels solves
1:53 Can LLMs help write kernels?
2:06 Using Claude Code + skills to generate kernels
3:21 Benchmarking different models for kernel generation
4:30 Agentic workflows and performance engineering
5:16 Supporting older and affordable hardware
6:55 Why infrastructure matters beyond generated code
7:46 How Kernels Hub helps developers learn and contribute
9:20 How to get involved with Hugging Face Kernels
10:00 Wrap-up
Learn more:
https://aifoundry.org/
https://huggingface.co
https://github.com/huggingface
The video was created by @aifoundryorg
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