Applied the Karpathy autoresearch loop (hypothesize, patch, measure, keep/revert, iterate) to a swim workout parser. Each commit moved the bench score: 0.20 (honest baseline) -> 0.42 (kick+drill vocab) -> 0.58 (trailing NL notes) -> 0.63 (forward note attach) -> 0.68 (FBFB@ strip) -> 0.78 (FBBF structured pattern) -> 0.83 (as-pattern sub-reps). The loop made parser work legible and falsifiable: every change had a measured delta, every regression could be reverted.
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