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• By bdauvergne 2026-01-1011:266 reply

  Seems people read the blog but not the code, I looked at the stated rewrite of Numpy in Rust:

  > As an introductory project, I rewrote Numpy in Rust. It was great fun.

  That's not a rewrite at all it's just a wrapping of an existing linear algebra Rust library (faer, blas, etc..) with a more Numpy like API. It seems to me that every AI project I look at is just a mashup/wrapper over existing things. Where are the real bootstrapped new things with AI ? Is there any big OSS project (Linux kernel, postgresql, Django, whatever) with serious bugfixes or new features implemented by AI that we could look at ?

  Are so much people in programming implementing middleware / wrapping existing API all day that it gives them a feeling of liberation to be able to delegate those tasks ?

  By djeastm 2026-01-1012:101 reply
  >Are so much people in programming implementing middleware / wrapping existing API all day that it gives them a feeling of liberation to be able to delegate those tasks ?
  Yes. A lot of jobs are providing the glue between other pieces like this and not inventing new algorithms and such.
  Perhaps this is why there is such a divide in sincere opinions about AI.
  By jascha_eng 2026-01-1012:333 reply
  https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch
  BM25 index for postgres, mostly written by a single (very smart) guy and Claude Code.
  By throwup238 2026-01-1012:001 reply
  > Anecdotally, we use Opus 4.5 constantly on Zed's code base, which is almost a million lines of Rust code and has over 150K active users, and we use it for basically every task you can think of - new features, bug fixes, refactors, prototypes, you name it. The code base is a complex native GUI with no Web tech anywhere in it.
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46522437
  Zed is open source so you can look at their PRs and commit history. They even rolled their own Rust GUI framework for the project so it’s a decent case study of working on code that is barely in the training data (if at all).
  By nl 2026-01-1011:521 reply
  No true Scotsman would ever do the kind of programming that 95% of the programming in the world is right?
  Anyway https://www.reddit.com/r/osdev/comments/1opsicd/just_how_far...
• By CharlesW 2026-01-0919:586 reply

  I get vibe-coders not having a good experience once the honeymoon is over. But I'm fascinated that a professional software developer could have such a different experience than I do.

      • LLMs generate junk
      • LLMs generate a lot of junk
• By arach 2026-01-106:013 reply

  > My personal favorite hooks though are these:

    "Stop": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "afplay -v 0.40 /System/Library/Sounds/Morse.aiff"
        }]}],
    "Notification": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "afplay -v 0.35 /System/Library/Sounds/Ping.aiff"
        }]}]
  

  These are nice but it's even nicer when Claude is talking when it needs your attention

  Easy to implement -> can talk to ElevenLabs or OpenAI and it's a pretty delightful experience