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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.
(www.theatlantic.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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Assuming the vars are all really short, it sounds like the same idea behind Webpack's (et al) minification & mangling to achieve tiny performance gains everywhere it can. Which might mean there's a dev version that isn't squashed and ugly, but doesn't make it to us..?
C is compiled; minification won't make it faster.