My horse spent 2 hours saving 1 minute

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🩺 Summary

I asked my horse to optimize a script. It wrote profiler, benchmark, 3 strategies, comparison. 2 hours later the script was 1 minute faster. Those 2 hours were mine.

📝 Details

Optimization trap: cost exceeded benefit by 120x. LLM cannot tell worth doing from possible to do.
Give it a time budget: spend max 5 minutes on this.