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by the__alchemist 107 days ago
Based on the list of contributors to your project, I am not sure this starting location is optimally suited to the task of building a foundation for polished, reliable, expandable software.
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It's having ~ 5000 tests already. Used correctly, AI agents can help you improve the quality of the code!
Do you see why this perspective is a red flag on its own?
I certainly don't. If a software developer has found a way to use these tools that works well for them and produces good results, that's a good thing.
I have no dog in this fight, but simply claiming a count of tests get you anything is like saying your code coverage is 100% - it sounds really good until you think about what 5000 unreviewed tests actually... do.
No I don’t, review your code
If I go by the contributor numbers on Github, I see Claude has committed something on the order of 300,000 lines of code. I don't think it's reasonable to review that much code, even in weeks worth of time.
I haven’t needed to do such a thing in a while, but my “rule” for explaining how unreasonable is to say “if I only glanced at each line of code for 1 second, without bothering to understand the details, it would take me 3 and a half full 24hr days non stop to simply look at”. So it’s definitely more than 1 work week because presumably other stuff is going to need to get done in that time too. Actually understanding it is going to be at least a multiple of that, and probably the multiple is ~30x.
God help us.
The sneering on HN really has no end. This is a good project! I for one am very excited to see an interpreter born out of rust.
It’s so obnoxious
It's a defense mechanism. I was guilty as charge as well initially. Suddenly most of your l33t skillz are trivialized and surpassed by an inhumane actor. It's a tough pill to swallow.
In that case I kindly refer you to the matter of Arkell v. Pressdam.