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Re:Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Me... by risyachka on Sunday January 11, 2026 @06:13AM (#46574560)
Yep, it always seems easy from the outside until you start doing it. Then unless you are doing a crud web app you quickly run into issues where unless you know what you are doing- Claude Code won’t help you.
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Re:Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Me... by OlaProis on Sunday January 11, 2026 @06:34AM (#46574738)
Exactly. The AI is great at "write me a function that does X" or "convert this to async." It struggles with: - Graph layout algorithms (crossing minimization, layer assignment) - State machine interactions (how does undo interact with sync scroll when switching view modes?) - Performance debugging (why is syntax highlighting slow on scroll?)

The domain knowledge still matters. AI just compresses the boilerplate time.

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