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The AI-generated kernel solutions use substantially fewer lines of code.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“like i mean gpu kernels have a verification problem like we've kind of known this it's been a problem since kernel bench was released like there's a lot of reward hacking that goes on but you'll yeah you also notice like the lines of code is a lot lot”
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