[m3h]

The author shared their experience building the first version in a month: https://themackabu.dev/blog/js-in-one-month

And then the follow up few months later: https://themackabu.dev/blog/ant-part-two

I'm not sure what the economics of building a new runtime and ecosystem from scratch are but it seems we're already in a phase where individual developers are creating software which previously took a whole team. And its only getting started...

[hollowturtle]

> The engine, Ant Silver, is hand-built.

[vips7L]

It’s not hand-built. It’s hand prompted.

[hoppp]

I don't like it.

There is no shame in saying it's generated, bun is now completely vibe code also.

Saying it's hand built when it's not is false advertising

[hollowturtle]

Not specified what the hack hand prompted means anyways?

[bblb]

Writing code by your own hands is an esoteric hobby. We are past the slop era. This is coding now. If you're 1x, you're not a dev.

I would assume by now most of the code published on Github is hand-built with LLM prompts and armies of AI agents.

[opem]

What is the definition of being an 1x dev?

[vips7L]

This is very much still the slop era.

[kamov]

Okay, so would you say LuaJIT is slop, just because it is hand coded?

[SilverSlash]

Is that impressive? If an LLM is just spewing out code which it has been trained on extensively then to me it's not that impressive at all. I want to see individual developers creating new software which previously took a whole team. Things not done previously. I am very pro AI btw, but the constant barrage of false hype is really tiresome.