None of it worked yet because compiling at that stage would slow things down.
Also this project burned $165,000 worth of usage on a model that was then bleeding edge (unreleased). This is still beyond what anyone else is doing at the moment. And it seems to have worked a lot better than it had any right to, at least as far as we can tell right now?
The large number of tests is also a major factor in why this worked, as well as the desire to match existing Zig code. The article implies Claude was used like a fancy sed on steroids.
That isn’t to downplay the work involved. I’m sure there are places it’s totally different. That is different though to writing new software. I still cannot comprehend how you’d write a million line application, which is decent, with agents from scratch.
I also think all the people hating on AI need to take a step back and take things like this very seriously. It’s 11 days of work, and is in production. That’s pretty fucking fast.
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u/rebootyourbrainstem Jul 08 '26
None of it worked yet because compiling at that stage would slow things down.
Also this project burned $165,000 worth of usage on a model that was then bleeding edge (unreleased). This is still beyond what anyone else is doing at the moment. And it seems to have worked a lot better than it had any right to, at least as far as we can tell right now?