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by novok 37 days ago
With AI agents and how good they are in doing "language translation" tasks against an identical target with a comprehensive test suite, you end up doing these things out of curiosity. The AI agent has the originals to test it's assumptions with too.

I've had surprisingly good results from getting AI agents to take a script in shell, python or typescript and have it translate it into those other programming languages, including rust versions. Or swapping from one build system to another.
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tracker1 37 days ago
Totally agreed... It enables you to try swapping out dependencies you might not otherwise even consider because of the cognitive load in trying to do so as an individual, and get it done/working in a few hours and a few days to follow in order to review.

Or take on an additional/related feature (like Redis grepping over the new array data types). Because you can be relatively sure the borders are stable and you can limit the surface/scope.

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