We’ve seen an explosion of new ML chips with unique architectural features, but software support remains the critical bottleneck Achieving peak performance increasingly relies on hardware-specific optimizations in the kernels, but we observe that coding agents are particularly weak at this Introducing Hawkeye, a framework that brings hardware-awareness to coding agents by grounding them in a minimal and comprehensive taxonomy of optimization strategies For new GPU or ML accelerator architectures, you only need to write 10 unit tests and solution kernels (one per optimization strategy), and we show that coding agents can effectively scale test-time compute with this minimal supervision to write hardware-aware kernels Hawkeye can port kernels across architectures (Ampere, Hopper, Blackwell), vendors (NVIDIA, AMD), and precisions (FP8, NVFP4, MXFP4) while consistently leveraging hardware features and approaching expert kernel performance Work co-led with @keramakr and done in collaboration with Alexander Ingare @simonguozirui @18jeffreyma @ZishenW @simran_s_arora @Azaliamirh @profvjreddi