TypeScript 7, $10,000 AI Slop Removal and Claude Code's Token Bloat - The Weekly Diff #7

Table of Contents "LLMs are sponges that soak up everything you do and repeat it back to you." - Scott Robinson TypeScript 7 Is Here, and It's Fast TypeScript 7 is a native port of the compiler , rewritten in Go, and it lands somewhere between 8x and 12x faster on full builds. The team's own table has the VS Code codebase dropping from 125.7s to 10.6s, and bumping the new --checkers 8 flag pushes…