https://orner.net/tags/performance/Recent content in Performance on Lance OrnerHugoen-usMon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://orner.net/posts/enumerating-cribbage/Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://orner.net/posts/enumerating-cribbage/<p>Claude and AI tools now make it possible to analyse problems that come up while playing cards at lunch. In Cribbage, given six dealt cards and you must discard two, what is the optimum play? Years ago, we thought about this problem, but running through all of the possibilities would take significant processing time. Now, I can do it in under an hour.</p> <p>The below text is AI generated, along with the code. Just thought I&rsquo;d get that out of the way. All of this came with my discussion with Claude Opus 5.0, and I had it work out the details. Claude is saying this better than I could anyway.</p>