Mastodawn

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"To underscore the consequences of not having that kind of data, Smiley pointed to a recent attempt to rewrite SQLite in Rust using AI."

"It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless."

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

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AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

interview: Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess

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Kumar McMillan 2d ago

@anttipeltola according to the linked article they only ran a benchmark *after* the LLM rewrote SQLite. Yeeeaaah, that’s not gonna work.

Here’s what happens when you tell the LLM to run a benchmark continuously after each change and discard any patch that makes things slower: https://awesomeagents.ai/news/shopify-ceo-ai-agent-liquid-engine-53-faster/

Feedback loops matter. They’ve always mattered for hand written software but they matter more for AI because LLMs are good at reacting to corrective instructions.

Shopify CEO Uses AI Agent to Make Liquid 53% Faster

Tobi Lütke ran Karpathy's autoresearch loop against the Liquid templating engine he created 20 years ago, producing 93 commits from 120 experiments that cut parse+render time by 53% and allocations by 61%.

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MikeStok

@kumarvibe @anttipeltola is that the same Lütke who’s happy to host Nazi stores on his platform?