raven-uxn now has an x86-64 assembly backend (yay!)

and it's about 2x faster (yay!!)

and the first draft was written by Claude (booo!)

and then I rewrote most of it, which made it even faster (yay!)

and introduced a memory corruption bug (booo?)

which Claude is better at debugging than I am (.......?)

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if you too have complicated feelings about our robot buddies, you may enjoy my writeup:

mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-03-15

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