>they turned it into something unreadable

Did you compare the code before/after? It's a mechanical line-by-line port, and most of the code is identical to the old version, just with Rust syntax. They have an example in the blog post.

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kvuj 3 hours ago | parent [-]

But how can it be a mechanical rewrite if the tool used isn't deterministic?

	▲	kgeist 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It converges to "almost deterministic" on highly predictable outputs (i.e. code) with the right sampling params (say, you only sample the most probable token without randomness/high temperature) and with self-correction loops