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You forgot the first part. the famous x,y, and z: "by virtualizing time itself, patching key browser audio APIs, and waging war against headless Chrome's quirks.

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Thanks, it's helpful to put a name to it.

Yep, that's good one. "Virtualizing time itself" itself is such a dead giveaway. What a nonsensical phrase.

Virtual Time is a feature of Chrome to fast forward when rendering.

See --virtual-time-budget

https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

Yes, but "virtualizing time itself" as phrased is meant to be superfluous, LLMs do that kind of thing a lot. It makes it sound like some kind of mystical or novel approach even though the actual pattern is already common knowledge / explicitly supported.

Yeah it does have that flowery turn of phrase.

Lesson: if your going to do LLM assisted writing, say to it “make sure this has a distinct tone that consistent and clearly quite different”.

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