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by hrdwdmrbl 173 days ago
As a goal for 2030, it doesn’t seem that wild. Shoot for the moon
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Rewriting Microsoft's 10s if not 100s of millions of lines of native code in four years doesn't sound that wild to you?
Windows’ downfall will finally give rise to the Linux desktops, already seeing trends in how popular Omarchy is and well received
Yet another distro maintained by who knows who, applying who knows which patches, that will lose support in some years? Nah.
Just toss an agent at it (tm)
“Make no mistakes” and it’s a few days of work…
No? They will harness the power of AGI agents to rewrite everything in Rust. Sounds good to me.
> AGI

That thing we don't have yet?

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Not true.
Sam Altman said it's true.
One of the least fun things about a hype bubble is that I legitimately can't tell when people are joking anymore.
You should have been able to tell it's sarcasm because I said "harness the power." This phrase is only used in conjunction with bullshit.
I agree it's mostly only used in conjunction with bullshit, but during a hype bubble a lot of the users of that phrase don't fully realize they're spouting bullshit, and it's used in earnest.
It’s still wild because it’s mostly useless. Rewriting a few core components might improve security a bit, but otherwise it’ll not change anything for end users. This is the typical attractive but useless project for bored programmer with no product or business vision.