tinygrad and Hotz came on my radar only recently, so I looked into it. the most insightful comment, thats proven even more accurate with time, is this one:
https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=36066136
quote: "he gets excited about the currently hot thing in tech, makes his own knockoff version, generates a ton of buzz in the tech press for it, and then it fizzles out because he doesn't have the resources or attention span to actually make something at that scale"
quote: "he gets excited about the currently hot thing in tech, makes his own knockoff version, generates a ton of buzz in the tech press for it, and then it fizzles out because he doesn't have the resources or attention span to actually make something at that scale"