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

by m3h 3mo ago

The author shared their experience building the first version in a month: https://themackabu.dev/blog/js-in-one-month https://themackabu.dev/blog/js-in-one-month And then the follow up few months later: https://themackabu.dev/blog/ant-part-two 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 3mo ago
> The engine, Ant Silver, is hand-built.
- vips7L 3mo ago
  It’s not hand-built. It’s hand prompted.
  - hoppp 3mo ago
    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 3mo ago
    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.
    - kamov 3mo ago
      Okay, so would you say LuaJIT is slop, just because it is hand coded?
    - opem 3mo ago
      What is the definition of being an 1x dev?
    - vips7L 3mo ago
      This is very much still the slop era.
  - hollowturtle 3mo ago
    Not specified what the hack hand prompted means anyways?
SilverSlash 3mo ago
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.