A week of Claude tuning llama.cpp: ~300 tokens/s on two old V100s
Two ancient V100 GPUs, one open-source inference engine, and about a week of Claude optimizing it. Decode speed reached around 300 tokens a second, and the work is still going.
Done withClaudeSpotted· by HN user bitexploder· Oct 15, 2026
Result Still going after about a week
“I have had Claude optimizing llama.cpp for about a week and am at around 300 t/s decode”
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