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Re:A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization by augment_me on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:43PM (#50449826)
Oh sorry I didn't know it closed. I understand, I was mostly curious because I hear this every now and then, people seemingly not running into the issues of reward-hacking with agentic harnesses which contradicts a lot of findings from people and myself in these competitions.
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Re:A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization by nomi_uw on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:59PM (#50449903)
I don't think it's not a problem, and I'm sure it pops up extremely often in the case of competitions when things are won by margins of +0.01x and hundreds of people are chipping at it with agents for days. This is a very different scenario to what I assume most people might be doing, though.

Thanks for bringing up these points, it's definitely good food for thought to add to the blog!

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