Post by Ahmed Mujtaba Jalil

It’s 2026. Pakistan produces 25,000+ CS graduates a year. Not a single university has a GPU cluster for distributed training. Zero. AlexNet ran on two GTX 580s in 2012. That was fourteen years ago the moment the world understood deep learning is a compute problem. Every serious AI lab/University got the memo. We didn’t. Now thousands of students graduate with “AI” on their degrees having never touched multi-node training, data parallelism, or gradient synchronization. The real stuff. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s entire IT industry is a services economy. We write code for other people. We run operations for other people. That model is about to get gutted by AI agents and inference at scale, and we don’t own any of it.