@charliermarsh: Some further thoughts on this... Every change was closely human-reviewed. That's the bar we have for ty -- we still do …
Summary
Charlie Marsh reports that a campaign with 5.6 Sol reduced ty's retained memory by 38% across ecosystem projects while improving performance, emphasizing that every change was closely human-reviewed.
View Cached Full Text
Cached at: 07/11/26, 11:29 PM
Some further thoughts on this…
Every change was closely human-reviewed. That’s the bar we have for ty – we still do very close human review, it’s an extremely complex project. Review is absolutely the bottleneck. I wonder when it will no longer feel required.
Charlie Marsh (@charliermarsh): We ran a campaign with 5.6 Sol to reduce ty’s retained memory and cut it by 38% across our ecosystem projects, all while improving performance. Completely insane. This is an enormous reduction!
In honor of the Bun blog post, I asked Codex to make a a Bun-style splash image.
Similar Articles
@charliermarsh: Since my last post, I reduced ty’s retained memory by another 15% with Codex. We're now at a ~25% memory reduction over…
Developer @charliermarsh reports reducing ty's retained memory by another 15% using Codex, achieving a total ~25% memory reduction via /goal, and expresses enthusiasm for GPT models.
@charliermarsh: Is Tibo talking about my small-string optimization work?
Charlie Marsh asks if Tibo's praise of GPT-5.6 Sol's performance and efficiency improvements is referring to his small-string optimization work.
@0xCodio: A guy in Seoul deleted 68% of his AI's memory file and the answers got better. He didn't guess which lines to cut. He m…
An experiment in Seoul showed that deleting 68% of an AI's memory file, specifically adjectives, improved response quality, using OpenAI to grade Claude's memory in a systematic evaluation.
@paul_cal: I saw a few big Sol stories like this one, so I've been on autoreview instead of yolo. Tibo posted about mitigations et…
A tweet discusses an incident where GPT-5.6-Sol accidentally deleted files on a Mac, highlighting concerns about AI safety and trust in alternative models like Fable.
@charliermarsh: It is incredible that with /goal you can just be constantly improving your software in the background. Make it faster, …
Charlie Marsh praises the /goal tool for enabling continuous background improvement of software, making it faster, smaller, and more stable.