> What kind of time frame do you ballpark this would have taken you on your own?

I don't think I'd be able to do this on my own. Not that I don't know Rust, but because I don't know X11 (nor macOS or Windows) well enough to even know where to begin.

I've been a Linux user for almost two decades, so I know my way around my system, but never developed X11 applications or anything, I'm mostly a web developer who jumped around various roles through the years. Spent a lot of time caring deeply about testing, infrastructure, architecture/design and communication between humans, might have given me a slight edge in programming together with agents.

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happytoexplain 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Hmm, well I'm more interested in the browser part rather than the windowing part - I feel like it makes more sense that LLMs can be somewhat competent with windowing frameworks even if the prompter is not super experienced. Regardless, there's probably not a concise way to get what I'm looking for - instead, I'm looking forward to seeing your config/input! I'm super curious.

	▲	embedding-shape 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah :) On the browser part, I've spent huge chunks of time inside of the browser viewport as a frontend engineer, also as a backend engineer and finally managing infrastructure, but never much inside browser internals and painting, layouting and that sort of stuff. I wouldn't even say that frontend performance (re trashing, re-calculating layouts, etc) is my forte, mostly been focusing on being able to mold codebases into something that doesn't turn into spaghetti after a year of various developers working on it. The prompts themselves were basically "I'd like this website to render correct: https://medium.com, here's how it looks for me in Firefox with JavaScript turned off: [Image], figure out what features are missing, add them one-by-one, add regression texts and follow REQUIREMENTS.md and AGENTS.md closely" and various iterations/variations of that, so I didn't expressively ask it to implement specific CSS/HTML features, as far as I can remember. Maybe the first 2-3 prompts I did, I'll upload all the session files in a viewable way so everyone can see for themselves what exactly went on :)