Top 50 Open Kernel Challenge share Muse Spark Open speedup tactics

Following the kernel round of the Open Kernel Challenge to accelerate Meta's Muse Spark Open, an author contacted the top 50 participants to learn their strategies. The reports revealed that competitors heavily utilized frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI, custom harnesses and evaluation loops, and diverse compute setups, while emphasizing that agent-driven optimization requires human oversight to handle broader trade-offs like long-term maintainability. Open article →