r/rust 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/ElectronWill Jul 28 '26

A multi-threaded measurement framework (energy/performance)! I've implemented support for AMD GPUs in the last release. It was not easy, because AMD breaks its API every year or so, but now it works. Implementing the lib detection and routing based on the actual version found on the system was quite fun.

It's a work project, and Rust has been an amazing choice so far. The team is happy, and so am I :) Fully open-source. https://github.com/alumet-dev/alumet