https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46522437
Zed is open source so you can look at their PRs and commit history. They even rolled their own Rust GUI framework for the project so it’s a decent case study of working on code that is barely in the training data (if at all).
Anyway https://www.reddit.com/r/osdev/comments/1opsicd/just_how_far...
Yes. A lot of jobs are providing the glue between other pieces like this and not inventing new algorithms and such.
Perhaps this is why there is such a divide in sincere opinions about AI.
BM25 index for postgres, mostly written by a single (very smart) guy and Claude Code.
If I get production ready bm25 and incremental view maintenance in postgres, it really will do everything I care about.
Especially with the browser/client synch maintenance stuff people are working on.
“Generative software code doesn’t work”
> T.J. Green is a Senior Staff Engineer at Tiger Data, creators of TimescaleDB, where he is the implementor of pg_textsearch, a new Postgres extension for high-performance BM25 ranked text search. He brings deep expertise in database systems internals and indexing methods to this project. At Tiger Data, he has also contributed to pgvectorscale, the company's vector search extension for Postgres.
The guy could have written it eyes closed.
AI is a big multiplier for experienced folks like him.
Yes
The overwhelming majority of production code are simply wrappers and APIs calling existing frameworks and libraries
The type of projects you’re talking about are so unbelievably rare that almost nobody starts them or makes progress on them because predominantly they are social organizations that happen to export code
> As an introductory project, I rewrote Numpy in Rust. It was great fun.
That's not a rewrite at all it's just a wrapping of an existing linear algebra Rust library (faer, blas, etc..) with a more Numpy like API. It seems to me that every AI project I look at is just a mashup/wrapper over existing things. Where are the real bootstrapped new things with AI ? Is there any big OSS project (Linux kernel, postgresql, Django, whatever) with serious bugfixes or new features implemented by AI that we could look at ?
Are so much people in programming implementing middleware / wrapping existing API all day that it gives them a feeling of liberation to be able to delegate those tasks ?