March 17, 2026

IterX beats Anthropic’s hiring benchmark with autonomous AI agent’s new capabilities

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An autonomous AI agent has successfully surpassed Anthropic’s engineering hiring benchmark by approaching code optimization as a search problem, achieving a score of 1,140 cycles compared to the previous score of 1,363. This accomplishment demonstrates the effectiveness of IterX’s latest upgrade, which enables agent-based code optimization in areas such as CUDA and smart contracts with effortless onboarding. The shift in strategy from treating code tasks as logic puzzles to search problems marks a significant advancement in the capabilities of AI agents in tackling complex coding challenges.

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