https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorance
Yes, he was running around because he didn't want to get eaten, crushed or die.You do know he was running around, on top, and under the behemoth, right? Why didn't he run up the neck, over the head, and then poke the eye out from there? What can the beast even do to hurt him when he is in that area? Why not take advantage of the enemy's blind spot because of its damaged eye and attack from there?
He even tried to get to his head once more but then the turtle spit fire in his general direction.
Also, what can he do? Maybe spit some fucking fire? Did you even watch the episode? How did the first Knight die again? Oh right - he died when he was stabbing that monster's eye.
He could just be a pretty good robot pilot guyThe premise is ridiculous. Coding doesn't work like that, even if you are a genius. You can't just touch code you've never seen before, instantly understand it, and then rework it in the span of seconds (Yes, seconds. See how the mech became faster and faster? He clearly said he was reworking his code to do that. For that to happen, he had to be optimizing code he just wrote a moment ago, which makes you wonder why he didn't write the more efficient version in the first place. WTF.) Even a highly skilled developer will have trouble fixing a defect from code he didn't write, much more reworking a foreign OS. What this guy did is beyond ridiculous and was clearly thought up by an author with no IT experience whatsoever.
Or Frodo, or Harry Potter.
Same effort, same story, same thing.
Also half of what you wrote is once again, ignorance. (funny enough that you even think they run like computers)
"why didn't he write the more efficient version in the first place" -> yet nagging about how unrealistic it is to code something so good and fast.
Why do you even think this has anything to do with an OS or even unclean code? Building a Spell works like Code, but that doesn't even remotely mean it's as messy and complicated to either change or even look into it.Even a highly skilled developer will have trouble fixing a defect from code he didn't write, much more reworking a foreign OS. What this guy did is beyond ridiculous and was clearly thought up by an author with no IT experience whatsoever.
For now, all it means is that MC has the right mindset to get behind the idea of Magic more easily