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AI-Generated Code Hits Performance Wall; WebGPU Shaders Save the Day
A developer used Claude to generate a particle firework HTML game, but performance tanked at 5,000 particles (12 fps). Debugging revealed the CPU bottleneck, leading to a rewrite using WebGPU compute shaders for GPU-accelerated simulation. The experience highlights AI's limits in optimizing performance-critical code.
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The story underscores that AI code generation still requires human expertise to identify and fix performance bottlenecks, especially for graphics-heavy applications.
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