I mean... if the compiler isn't smart enough to see what you were trying to do and generate some ridiculously fast implementation, is it truly worthy of being c

I mean... if the compiler isn't smart enough to see what you were trying to do and generate some ridiculously fast implementation, is it truly worthy of being called "sufficiently advanced"? ;P You just know someone is going to try to add in an LLM-based (note the lack of a V there) compiler pass that says "give me a faster algorithm that does the same thing as this function" (and then all hell will break loose when it starts injecting random bullshit into the function it sort of grokked, or decides your code is for some evil ad company and deletes it on purpose... oh, wait: maybe this is a great idea).