Even amid the AGI race, a specialized tool really outperforms general‑purpose models. And even when this specialized tool is a side-project and at a very early stage.
I am building as a side-project a tool called SuperVM. It optimizes bytecode and machine code similarly to how a LLM would do but instead of using statistical systems, it uses deterministic systems and reasons from facts instead of probabilities (nothing new here these things have been around forever).
All the generated code is available on Github.
Experiment
I coded a very simple, hand-coded fractal generator.
The code is deliberately kept small and simple because that’s what coding agents handle best. We already know they struggle with large codebases.
Then I gave each Copilot the same one‑line prompt: “make it faster.”
Result
I measured the average FPS (frame per second) after 99 frames have been displayed.
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