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[−]epolanski · 2026-10-10 Sat 22:12 UTC · link
Your comment feels like it was written 18 months ago.

A vibe coded typescript compiler runs twice as fast as the one maintained by two dozen people led by some of the most brilliant language and compiler experts out there backed by thousands of open source contributors.

All of that by saying "here's the tests, implement it in rust".

[−]bigstrat2003 · 2026-10-11 Sun 02:41 UTC · link
> Your comment feels like it was written 18 months ago.

AI bros have been making the same claim for the last 3 years. It wasn't true then, it isn't true now, and it won't be true the next time either. You just aren't willing to admit the emperor has no clothes.

[−]epolanski · 2026-10-11 Sun 09:07 UTC · link
Previous poster stated ai can't do hard problems.

Yet there's a typescript compiler vibe coded, 100% compliant.