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Asked to generate drawio for the winner so I can grok it more easily, then I gave feedback.
Edit: 1121 cycles
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Which Gemini model did you use? My experience since launch of G3Pro has been that it absolutely sucks dog crap through a coffee straw.
/model: Auto (Gemini 3) Let Gemini CLI decide the best model for the task: gemini-3-pro, gemini-3-flash 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 complexit…
I consider myself rather smart and good at what I do. It's nice to have a look at problems like these once in a while, to remind myself of how little I know, and how much closer I am to the average than to the top.
They should just have you create a problem that can't be solved by an llm in two hours. That's the real problem here
Naively tested a set of agents on this task. Each ran the same spec headlessly in their native harness (one shot). Results: Agent Cycles Time ───────────────────────────────────────────── gpt-5-2 2,124 16m claude-opus-4-5-20251101 4,973 1h 2m gpt-5-1-codex-max-xhigh 5,402 34m gpt-5-codex 5,486 7m gpt-5-1-codex 12,453 8m gpt-5-2-codex 12,905 6m gpt-5-1-codex-mini 17,480 7m claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 21,054 10m claude-…
Can you share the agent-comparison harness code or point to something similar? I want to learn about benchmarking models in a basic or practical sense.
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I'm 30 years in, and literally don't understand the question.
After a quick look this is can be seen as a low level GPU/TPU optimization problem where you have to consider the throughput and depth of different arithmetic pipelines. If you want to hire people who understand how to do that you unfortunately have to give them such a convoluted task and emulate the relevant parts of HW. (In reality this is probably more like TPU since it has scalar pipelines, but the optimization m…
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That paraphrases to "do better than we have publicly admitted most of humanity can do, and we may deign to interview you" It sounds incredibly condescending, if not snarky, but I would classify those adjectives as mostly synonymous.
I understand how it can be interpreted as snarky, but how could it have been written better? It's a hard path to walk and recruiting/interviewing is inherently sensitive it seems.
Hiring and interviewing is in a weird place right now. We’re coming off of a period where tech jobs were easy to get and companies were competing for candidates. A lot of candidates quickly got used to the idea of companies working hard to charm and almost beg them to join. When those candidates encounter what it’s like to apply for highly competitive companies who have 1000x more applicants than they’d ever consider, the resulting straightforwardness can be shocking.
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> EE to debug react state management ... easily pick up most of it after a week long crash course while training a performance engineer ... would take months Isn't that mostly because as you go up the abstraction layer, tools and docs to teach yourself the tricks of trade fast are in abundance (let alone a popular layer like React)? Which inturn is likely a function of incentives and opportunities.
It's because the higher up the stack you go, tools become more declarative and literate. Calling sort is far easier than understanding the algorithm for example.
This was one of my gripes in college, why am I implementing something if I just need to understand what it does? I'm going to use the built-in version anyway.
Interesting... Who would spend hours working for free for some company that promised only that they would invite you for a job interview. Maybe.
The current e-mail invitation in the README is just another avenue for exceptional people to apply. If someone is already highly qualified from their background and resume they can go through the front door (direct application). For those who have incredible talent but not necessarily the background or resume to unlock the front door yet, this is a fun way to demonstrate it.