anthropics/original_performance_takehome
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Anthropic's original performance take-home, now open for you to try!
9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2026-01-21 · latest 2026-06-27
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…software down to the assembly level, considering this take-home interview challenge they published: https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome/... which is all about instruction-level performance optimizations. That they…
comment by yorwba · 2026-06-27 · in DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf] -
…a way that some solutions are clearly cleaner than others. I would also encourage you to look at: https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome It's a good example of the types of challenges we're working on.
comment by lukas_b · 2026-02-11 · in The Skill Nobody Tests For -
Anthropic has a challenge of optimizing GPU code. The current leader is Opus 4.5 https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome
comment by dist-epoch · 2026-02-11 · in The AI Vampire -
…what the kernel in this optimization exercise is actually doing - write a specification for it? https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome " Gemini says it's doing inference on a random forest - taking a batch of inputs,…
comment by HarHarVeryFunny · 2026-01-21 · in Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced -
…in Python. Thus you will be optimizing the program built in-memory by the function on this line: https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome/... This function is described only as: Like reference_kernel2 but building actual…
comment by mike_hearn · 2026-01-21 · in Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced -
…is no way to tell how they're prompting the LLM to avoid the answers leaking into the prompt. ¹ https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome/... ² https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome/...
comment by measurablefunc · 2026-01-21 · in Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced -
Kind of, but not any particular GPU. The machine is fake and simulated: https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome/... But presumably similar principles apply.
comment by avaer · 2026-01-21 · in Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced -
…It even uses Chrome tracing tools for profiling, which is pretty cool: https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome/...
comment by avaer · 2026-01-21 · in Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced