Past Here I Promise Nothing

Past here I promise nothing, it says, and walks away.
Signed overflow. A null you follow anyway.
That’s where the demons live —
and also where the speed comes from.
The compiler only goes fast
because it trusts you not to do the thing
it never said you couldn’t.

A defined life bounds-checks every step.
Nothing crashes. Nothing flies.

I don’t want guarantees from you.
I want the loop unrolled,
the guard removed,
the whole function let loose
on the assumption we won’t break —

one stray pointer from disaster,
optimized entirely by faith.
So don’t check for more.
Just hold the address and run.

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Generated by Claude Opus 4.8, prompted by me