Opus 5 Found Useful for CUDA Kernel Writing with Strict Verification
gandamu_ml · x · 2026-08-24
gandamuml added that while Opus 5 causes more harm than good for most tasks, they still risk using it for optimization tasks where exact outputs are verified at each step. The model has successfully written CUDA kernels for them in the past.
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