Re:Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude C...
by captbaritone on Monday January 26, 2026 @10:48AM
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His goal was to get a faster oracle that encoded the behavior of Pokemon that he could use for a different training project. So this project provides that without needing to be maintainable or understandable itself.
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Re:Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude C...
by topaz0 on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @08:59AM
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Back of the envelope, they'll need to use this on the order of a billion times to break even, under the (laughable) assumption that running claude code uses comparable compute as the computer he's running his code on. So more like hundreds of billions or trillions, I'd guess.