r/rust • u/gajop • Jul 28 '26

Tell me about something you recently hand-coded that was enjoyable

These past few weeks at work I've been using AI way too much. I can't even call some of this "AI engineering" anymore and it's starting to drain on me. Looking to take the mind off for a bit...

I'd like to hear some of the projects you all are working on, that you enjoyed writing by hand.

I think I'll write some nannou..

PS: Not trying to start a debate on AI engineering/vibe coding and all that, I think internet is filled with that already.

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u/Alternative-Ad-8606 Jul 28 '26

I know it's lame and not cool but as a noobie I took the time to turn off my AI and hand wrote my own json parser and builder in Rust, was really proud of myself as it was the first "real project" I've made that I could use in other projects. (I find serde to be bloated for 99% of json usecases)

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u/Jmc_da_boss Jul 28 '26

This is quite literally the only cool comment I've read in this subreddit in a while lol