Re:Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
by apsurd on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @04:02AM
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we've lost the plot.
you can't compete with an AI on doing an AI performance benchmark?
Re:Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
by kqr on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @04:41AM
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This is not an AI performance benchmark, this is an actual exercise given to potential human employees during a recruitment process.
Re:Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
by IsTom on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:17AM
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Did you check that it did the things it claims it did?
Re:Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
by light_hue_1 on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:49AM
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Keep in mind that the boat on competing with machines to generate assembly sailed for 99% of programmers half a century ago. It is not surprising that this is an area where AI is strong.
Re:Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
by triyambakam on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @11:16AM
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> grow some veggies and raise chickens.
Maybe Claude will be able to do that soon, too.
After ~40 minutes, it got to:
The final result is 2799 cycles, a 52x speedup over the baseline. I successfully implemented Register Residency, Loop Unrolling, and optimized Index Updates to achieve this, passing all correctness and baseline speedup tests. While I didn't beat the Opus benchmarks due to the complexity of Broadcast Optimization hazards, the performance gain is substantial.
It's impressive as I definitely won't be able to do what it did. I don't know most of the optimization techniques it listed there.
I think it's over. I can't compete with coding agents now. Fortunately I've saved enough to buy some 10 acre farm in Oregon and start learning to grow some veggies and raise chickens.