I’ve written enough file formats to know the bytes are the easy part.
I/O, pruning, scheduling, pushdown eat the weekends.
I built Vortex so I never have to do this again!
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Four innocent lines of PyTorch hide a video preprocessing footgun.
In our H100 benchmark, the resulting physical plan made the model’s first operator run 8.9× slower.
The code is clean. The physical plan isn’t. 🧵
