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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”
From the source: Hacker News · 2026-10-02

Spotted: found in the wild. Details are as reported by the source above and have not been independently verified.

What they did

Had Claude iteratively optimize llama.cpp for V100 GPUs; achieved ~300 tokens/second decode on two ancient V100s.

How it went

After about a week of optimisation, decode speed was around 300 tokens per second, and the work was still ongoing.

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Optimize llama.cpp for [GPU type/model] running [GGUF quant level]. Current performance: [baseline]. Analyze bottlenecks and implement optimizations for: prefill speed, decode latency, memory efficiency. Benchmark improvements against baseline.

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