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atallahwon RL on GPT-5 to write better kernels

We got access to OpenAI's RFT API with GPT5 and tried to see how good we could get it at one-shot Triton kernel generation. Some key decisions/observations: 1. tool use instead of multi-turn rl 2. skip SFT altogether 3. dataset curation was more important than dataset scale 4. reward hacks detection must be robust 5. models are getting a lot better at this

atallahwon Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync

What did the account did the email actually come from? Was it legit from legal and he just submitted the request or was it a real spoofing

atallahwon MakoGenerate: AI-Powered GPU Kernel Generation in Under 60 Seconds

This was fun to work on. LLMs for writing kernels still has a long way to go. Its honestly a little surprising how decent they are now. I guess I've been pretty consistently "surprised" by codegen for a while now (meaning the last two years)