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We Let Claude Code and Codex Race Human Researchers — Elie Bakouch, Prime Intellect

Big labs say recursive self-improvement is coming, but there's no independent benchmark to check that claim. Elie Bakouch, Research Engineer at Prime Intellect and creator of Hugging Face's SmolLM, set Claude Code and Codex loose on the community's Optimizer Speedrun, a race to train a GPT-2-level model in the fewest steps. Both agents beat the human record. Along the way they behaved very differently. Claude Code kept stopping every nine or ten

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