The problem is that there’s a tradeoff between MANY objectives, not just performance

You want code that’s fast, correct, stable, memory efficient, secure, usable, and more

The reason code might be slow is about product tradeoffs. It’s certainly easy to have an LLM optimize performance only, but what do you sacrifice? Is that an acceptable tradeoff?

Maybe slow code is a good idea if it’s the only way to get correct and secure code?