> issue with this is the amount of time it takes to load the bitstream, but I thought I saw some things recently where progress was being made on this front Yo

> issue with this is the amount of time it takes to load the bitstream, but I thought I saw some things recently where progress was being made on this front You saw correctly, work is indeed being done to build "shells" that can accept workloads without the user having to go through the FPGA tooling/build process.