This project is awesome - it really does render HTML+CSS effectively using 20,000 lines of dependency-free Rust (albeit using system libraries for image rendering and fonts).

Here's a screenshot I took with it: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mdg2oo6bms2...

Yes, this is what Ai assisted coding is good at.

A poc that would usually take a team of engineers weeks to make because of lack of cross disciplinary skills can now be done by one at the cost of long term tech debt because of lack of cross disciplinary knowledge.

Would be interested to know what people think of the locking implementation for the net worker pool.

I’m no expert but it seems like a strange choice to me - using a mutex around an MPSC receiver, so whoever locks first gets to block until they get a message.

Is that not introducing unnecessary contention? It wouldn’t be that hard to just retain a sender for each worker and just round robin them

That's fairly impressive.

Congratulations: you've single-handedly managed to humiliate a $29 bil. poster child for code-slop!

> Why is Cloudflare paying this guy again

Perhaps usage of AI is a performance target he's being judged against, like at many tech companies today.

> A production-grade Matrix homeserver implementation

It's getting outright frustrating to deal with this.

Fine, random hype-men gets hyped about stuff and tweets about it, doesn't mind me too much.

Huge companies who used to have a lot of good will putting out stuff like this, seemingly with absolutely zero reviews before hitting publish? What are they doing? Have everyone decided to just give up and give in to the slop? We need "engineering" to make a comeback.

Optics is the only thing that matters, there are people genuinely pushing for vibe coding on production systems. Actually, all of the big companies are doing this and claiming it is MORE safe because reduces human error.

I'm starting to believe they are all right, actually. Maybe frontier models surpassed most humans, but the bar we should have for humans is really really low. I genuinely believe most people cannot distinguish llms capabilities from their own capabilities, and their are not wrong from the perspective they have.

How could you perceive, out in the wild, an essence that scapes you?

[flagged]

Army brain.

I have a feeling that AI psychosis is more prevalent than we realize, especially in software.

I would not rule out that sometimes they are just incompetent and believe their own story, because they just don't know it better. Seems this is called a "bad apple"?

Everyone (not really, but basically yes) associated with $current_thing is a rent seeking scammer.

Even if Blockchain has tremendous impact, even if transformers are incredible (really) technology, even if NFTs could solve real world problems...you could basically say the same thing and be right, rounding up, 100% of the time, about anything technology related (and everything else as well). This truly is a clown world, but it is illegal to challenge it (or considered bad faith around here)

It didn't even compile, which makes me consider wether your comment is just ignorant or outright maliciously misleading

I believe it was basically a broken, non-functioning wrapper around Servo internals. That’s what I’d expect from a high schooler who says “i wrote a web browser”, but not what I’d expect from a multi-billion dollar corporation.

My understanding is that it doesn't even compile if you clone the repo.

They didn't build a browser from scratch.