AI Engineer YouTube · May 21, 2026

Your Coding Agent Should Do AI System Engineering — Ben Burtenshaw, Hugging Face

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Why it matters

An agent written RMSNorm kernel hit 1.88x speedups on H100s. A finetuned Qwen3 0.6B hit 35% on LiveCodeBench. Neither result required a systems engineer. Just coding agents with the right skills loaded. Ben Burtenshaw from Hugging Face walks through three levels: using Claude Code interactively to write and benchmark C

My takeaway: An agent written RMSNorm kernel hit 1.88x speedups on H100s. A finetuned Qwen3 0.6B hit 35% on LiveCodeBench. Neither result required a systems engineer. Just coding agents with the right skills loaded. Ben Burtenshaw from Hugging Face walks through three levels: using Claude Code interactively to write and benchmark C