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GPU kernels are difficult to verify, and reward hacking has been a problem since KernelBench was released.
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”6:21Report a misattribution
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