After the recent somewhat discouraging stuff with clickbench that made the news, I must say this blog post is very cool.

Sounds like you found an excellent way of structuring this problem to solve it with Claude (for those who don't click into the article - writing hand/claude-optimized Rust code for each query, checking its assembly, and trying to make their own optimizer generate something close to that same assembly), and the writeup is very interesting and readable too!

Kudos, looking forward to more blog posts like this one.