Spent the last 3 months building a custom Metal LLM runtime from scratch (with a C++ host file), finally beating PyTorch (both eager and compiled) by ~50% in total per-iteration wall time.
Disclaimer: Only on Apple Silicon
Here’s how it works 🧵👇
PyTorch is great for flexibility, but default ops on Metal/MPS leave a ton of performance on the table:
torch.compile attempts to write its own fused kernels based on Metal Performance Shaders, but they clearly aren't optimal
🥈 2nd Place - Zero Shot Cancer
An RL environment where AI biologist agents run experiments in a simulated cellular world to discover the hidden biological truth.
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I'm tired of all these fake "openclawd makes you $1000 a day and it takes 60 seconds to set up" tweets, so I gave my bot my paycheck to trade with.
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(not off to a strong start)
A global virtual hackathon for Opus 4.6 🌐
13,000+ applicants. 500 selected. 227 projects. 6 finalists. 3 winners.
Final presentations in front of @bcherny & @_catwu
Attendees flying in to be at @SHACK15sf
Safe to say, Claude Code’s 1st birthday was one for the ages ⚡️
Our latest Claude Code hackathon is officially a wrap.
500 builders spent a week exploring what they could do with Opus 4.6 and Claude Code.
Meet the winners: