Yeah so I believe the secret sauce for AGC is realising that due to the symmetry and the overlapping of bonders with the input and output, all you really have to do is translate the first three inputs away from any naughty bonders that try to fire early and calcifying them. Pivoting the central atom with intermediary products is very wasteful for area and it makes it really hard to control the hexes being used. But with this methodology, things just naturally fall into place! I gotta say, being able to do this with fixed length-1 arms feels like I'm fucking cheating the metric. Usually you associate Area with pistons! But alas, this was not a piston friendly puzzle, at least for this metric! You could say this has been a BIOSTEEL FILAMENT Area moment.

Also what the fuck is up with that cycles count, it's LITERALLY ALMOST as fast as my cycles solve.