diff --git a/.jules/bolt.md b/.jules/bolt.md
index b2c1128..b6e0a9b 100644
--- a/.jules/bolt.md
+++ b/.jules/bolt.md
@@ -28,3 +28,6 @@
 ## 2025-10-24 - Bulk Disk I/O Parallelization and Thread Pool Starvation
 **Learning:** Both `withTaskGroup` and `Task.detached` schedule their work on Swift's cooperative thread pool, which has only as many threads as the CPU has cores. Running synchronous blocking I/O (like `FileManager.removeItem`) directly inside such tasks ties up cooperative threads — when every thread is parked in a syscall there is nothing left to advance other Swift Concurrency work, which manifests as starvation and (with self-referential `await` chains) outright deadlock. `Task.detached` does not help here: "detached" means unstructured/independent, not "off the cooperative pool."
 **Action:** To parallelize bulk blocking I/O, combine a sliding-window `withThrowingTaskGroup` (e.g., `maxConcurrency` of 8) with a per-item handoff to a GCD queue: wrap the blocking call in `withCheckedThrowingContinuation` and dispatch it via `DispatchQueue.global(qos: .userInitiated).async { ... continuation.resume(...) }`. The cooperative-pool task only `await`s the continuation, so it never holds a thread while the syscall runs.
+## 2024-05-30 - Short-circuit evaluations on arrays
+**Learning:** Using `.isEmpty` on a filtered array forces eager evaluation of the entire filter criteria. For checking if any elements match a condition, it's heavily inefficient.
+**Action:** Use `.contains(where:)` instead of checking `.isEmpty` on a filtered array to short-circuit evaluation, stopping at the first match.
diff --git a/Sources/Cacheout/ViewModels/CacheoutViewModel.swift b/Sources/Cacheout/ViewModels/CacheoutViewModel.swift
index 27de41a..a72c97e 100644
--- a/Sources/Cacheout/ViewModels/CacheoutViewModel.swift
+++ b/Sources/Cacheout/ViewModels/CacheoutViewModel.swift
@@ -105,8 +105,9 @@ class CacheoutViewModel: ObservableObject {
         scanResults.filter { $0.isSelected }
     }
 
+    // ⚡ Bolt Optimization: Use .lazy chaining for reduce to prevent intermediate array allocation
     var selectedSize: Int64 {
-        selectedResults.reduce(0) { $0 + $1.sizeBytes }
+        scanResults.lazy.filter { $0.isSelected }.reduce(0) { $0 + $1.sizeBytes }
     }
 
     var formattedSelectedSize: String {
@@ -118,7 +119,8 @@ class CacheoutViewModel: ObservableObject {
     }
 
     var hasResults: Bool { !scanResults.isEmpty || !nodeModulesItems.isEmpty }
-    var hasSelection: Bool { !selectedResults.isEmpty || selectedNodeModulesSize > 0 }
+    // ⚡ Bolt Optimization: Use contains(where:) to short-circuit rather than filtering entire array to check emptiness
+    var hasSelection: Bool { scanResults.contains(where: { $0.isSelected }) || selectedNodeModulesSize > 0 }
 
     // MARK: - Node Modules computed properties