I'm sorry, but you still have to think | It's all about the bit
DHH, the creator of the Ruby on Rails framework, decided to rewrite Campfire Once from Ruby on Rails to Rust. Or rather ask a clanker to do it for him, as he can't stand reading or writing the Rust code himself. After that he added rewrites in other languages, like Elixir and Go. This is very interesting to me, as it's a very good insight into the results of someone using AI agents without reading the code. In this case, that someone has also a lot of prior programming experience. And the results are... well, not very encouraging if you are hoping you can stop reading the code, or stop thinking altogether anytime soon. There are multiple problems with the rewrites, but let's start with non-functional differences cause they nicely show something that a lot of people seem to not realize: if your prompt is not specific enough, many decisions are a coin flip. This is because a whole lot of questions don't have a single correct answer. Do we want to keep backwards compatibility? Do we care