On LLMs and Code Optimization

Prologue: Well, in the spirit of "own your own stuff", I've decided to claw back my blog onto self-ish hosted space (the blog is static, though I'm not hosting it on my own metal, so it's easy to migrate). Welcome to the new blog, same as the old blog. Max Woolf recently asked whether repeatedly prompting a large language model (LLM) to "write better code" would make it, well, write better code.…