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by farkin88 315 days ago
Big takeaway for me: the win isn’t better prompts, it’s semantic guarantees. By proving at the bytecode level that the pixel loop is side-effect-free, you can safely split it into long-lived workers and use an order-preserving queue. It's an aggressive transform copilots won’t attempt because they can’t verify invariants. That difference in guarantees (deterministic analysis vs. probabilistic suggestion) explains the 2× gap more than anything else.
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Yes exactly and that was the hard part (extract and verify the invariants). Still it's surprising because llm needs to be able to do that for any complex code.

What you wrote is great can I copy/paste it in the blog post? (Referring you of course)

For sure. Feel free to copy/paste it. Great blog by the way. Will keep any eye out more of your posts.