That's why Claude spends your tokens on so many source code comments. It's not for your benefit - heck, if anything, it gives you more power to cancel your plan and pick up where the robot left off. It's because a couple lines of /* reasoning */ before a function makes a better function, when all you have is a predictive hammer and all source code looks like a predictable nail. The extra token spend is a nice side benefit.

Even within the machine cult, nobody in their right mind would demolish this well-known load-bearing pillar. Which says something about what kind of mind Dr. Ket is in.

As the cherry on top? I write C and I look at the generated assembly on a regular basis. Not just to keep my skills sharp, but also because I'm often writing code with some assumptions/intent about the instructions I want to see in performance critical code, so I need to be able to form hypotheses and check them, which is a form of literacy. I don't want to be lost when reading `perf` output, so I put in the work!

9/9