First impression: Astra claims PTX restriction bypassable, but Sol was right
A_K_Nain · x · 2026-09-06
- A first test of Astra on a hard kernel problem: Sol correctly flagged the issue as a documented PTX bug backed by correctness tests, while Astra claimed the PTX restriction could be bypassed with a more flexible kernel.
- The author notes Sol was right in this case — a snapshot of frontier models' judgment on low-level GPU kernel issues.
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