Fable one-shotted a Rust rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python library in 11M tokens. Startup time went from 87ms to 2ms and rendering s

kept by eddie aug 10

Fable rewrote the TerminalTextEffects Python library in Rust using 11M tokens, reducing startup time from 87ms to 2ms and boosting rendering speed 9.6x with zero dependencies in a 3MB executable.

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