Programming

Programming

— Software development, languages, tools, and the craft of building software
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danluu.com/ambitious

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

The author argues developers should be more ambitious now that AI agents make large projects feasible, citing pgrust (whose testing has surfaced real Postgres bugs), a custom regex engine, a ripgrep fork, a Rust interpreter and board-game AIs built in a few hours. He notes the caveat that rigorous benchmarking is lacking and newer models still struggle on harder tasks.

— via Hacker News (top 30), ltratt


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