[CoastalCoder]

I've worked on AI-hardware software stacks for several well known companies.

It's impossible to overstate to advantages that CUDA, it's documentation, toolchain, and nSight software provide to outside developers.

The closest thing I've seen to nSight Systems software is Intel's VTune. But that's just one piece I'm a much larger puzzle, and last I checked, VTune was only for Intel CPU.

AFAICT, Nvidia's software seriously reduces the ramp-up time for new developers to write kernels or apps that make good use of the available hardware.

E.g., nsys-ui (like VTune) recognizes anomalous profile results, and makes solid suggestions for next steps. I don't know of other software that does this (well), although maybe I'm just uninformed.