One thing notable of Sierra Forest is that the CPUs don’t have SMT (only 1 thread per core), so in theory it doesn’t suffer from speculative execution attacks.

Epyc CPUs still provides more PCIE lanes, which is crucial for GPUs.

There is a game that is based on the same thinking (Universal Paperclips), you play the rule of “the AI”.

For my last self-made program, I just wrote a config.py, and call import config from other code files and write my config in Python.