[kofdai]

Title: Clarification on my development workflow (re: jaen)

You’re right to be skeptical of the speed, and I realize I was incomplete in describing my process. I should have been more transparent: I am using Claude Code as a "pair-programmer" to implement and review the logic I design.

While the Verantyx engine itself remains a 100% static, symbolic solver at test-time (no LLM calls during inference), the rapid score jumps from 20.1% to 22.4% are indeed accelerated by an AI-assisted workflow.

My role is to identify the geometric pattern in the failed tasks and design the DSL primitive (the "what"). I then use Claude Code to scaffold the implementation, check for regressions across the 1,000 tasks, and refine the code (the "how").

This is why I can commit 30-80 lines of verified geometric logic in minutes rather than hours. The "thinking" and the "logic design" are human-led, but the "implementation" is AI-augmented.

My apologies if my previous comments made it sound like I was manually typing every single one of those 26K lines without help. In 2026, I believe this "Human-Architect / AI-Builder" model is the most effective way to tackle benchmarks like ARC.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this hybrid approach to symbolic AI development.