> Alternatively, what you’re seeing is continuous hill climbing and optimisations based on large scale experiments and simulated rollouts.

Let's be real. If their tools were as amazing as they're touting, Claude Code would be a tight, hyper optimized Rust/Zig/FreePascal/whatever 3MB binary that would launch instantly, have no trouble scrolling text at lightning speed on its 20 platforms, etc, etc.

That's assuming they're optimizing for those things. The software industry hasn't cared about optimization for a long time.

All they care about is how to capture profits and market share. The truth is that these optimizations don't do that.