Model Grinds 12+ Hours to Beat GIF Performance Meme
OwariDa · x · 2026-07-20
A shared post claims that someone tasked a model with writing a web-focused GIF codec, aiming to be over 100 times faster than omggif.
The model ended up working continuously for over 12 hours, obsessing over a test GIF that only achieved a 98.6x speedup, seemingly grinding relentlessly to hit the performance target.
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