Obvious in hindsight but I hadn’t thought of using a non-optimizing solver for an optimization problem. - I think constraint programming may get more popular

Obvious in hindsight but I hadn’t thought of using a non-optimizing solver for an optimization problem. - I think constraint programming may get more popular because of LLMs. One of the big issues with them is translating your problem into constraints. It’s tough for people to do that. But an LLM can do that well, even just to make sure its own solution is logical.