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`as const` breaks intra expression inference
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Description
### 🔎 Search Terms
const context expression assertion inference type parameter
### 🕗 Version & Regression Information
- This is the behavior in every version I tried
### ⏯ Playground Link
https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?ts=6.0.0-dev.20250806#code/CYUwxgNghgTiAEAzArgOzAFwJYHtXwxAGcMAeAFQBp4ARAPgApYBzALngG8AoeeLVAA7IM7GgG4e8ATBzBkYEOyYw2tAJTwAvHXjkJvMHiLIAtovjLV5DdvipTAIxAwJAXzWiJXQ6hLwHMgDWIPiaBMQYDNy8-EIi8ACMAAxJlJLSsvLmljY6LAB0GDgAyhgw-MwMamkGRqbZLLnwBRAhzBgAFmmuzUTwPiRqXgMY8ADuODCBFVrhJFGSscLsyanpMnIKSo1aeSqFJWUVVTX9dWbbKk0tbZ3dQ1xAA
### 💻 Code
```ts
declare function test(arg: {
input: D;
produce: (arg: D) => T;
consume: (arg: T) => number;
}): D;
const broken = test({
input: 100,
produce: (arg) => arg.toString(), // 'arg' is of type 'unknown'.(18046)
consume: (arg) => arg.length,
} as const);
const working = test({
input: 100,
produce: (arg) => arg.toString(), // `arg` inferred as `number`
consume: (arg) => arg.length,
});
```
### 🙁 Actual behavior
`as const` is the only difference between those two and its presence breaks assigned parameter type in `produce`
### 🙂 Expected behavior
I think `as const` should not impact inference this way and both should be inferred just OK. It's just that the `broken` case should infer `100` instead of `number` for the `D` type parameter
### Additional information about the issue
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Research direction
Start with the linked TypeScript Playground and compare the `broken` and `working` examples, then trace how the `as const` assertion affects contextual typing and inference for `produce`. Done means the asserted case infers the callback parameter without `unknown` and preserves the expected literal `100` inference for `D`.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100