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...

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SilverSlash 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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hollowturtle 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

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vips7L 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	hoppp 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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
	▲	bblb an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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.