>CPUs are great for orchestrating work

Right, and wouldn't it be really nice if we could check on our orchestrators to make sure their not bottlenecking ops?

"How come we can fully load the GPUs?" "Idk boss, amelius said htop et al were irrelevant so we can't really investigate"

"Use gtop, a tool that shows both cpu and gpu load, and more. I am your boss, you should know this stuff, not me".

Screws have been around for about 3 millennia at this point. They have patently failed to obviate the use of nails. So by this analogy we can expect the 'Only GPUs do the work.' believers to be still promising this, any day now, about three thousand years hence. (-:

Software is getting more complicated and a lot of it depends on both cpu and gpu.

If you have a systems tool that gives an overview of resources used, then better monitor them both.

Imho failing to do so is not future-proof. Your opinion might differ.

Did you write this comment using your gpu?

Actually modern rendering might involve GPU

For high performance work, gpus have replaced cpus a long time ago.

Not for all definitions of HPC, though.

No one's doing database management on GPUs. No one's scraping data on GPUs. Can't run VMs on GPUs. Can't run web servers on GPU...

It is sunny in my backyard now. Must be sunny everywhere else

There is plenty of "high performance work" that still requires CPUs.