Dan Luu reports that a coding agent achieved a 7% speedup on ripgrep by splicing ahead-of-time compilation into an experimental regex engine, with simple long-running searches improving by 2x to 4x, a…
After four attempts and spending $100,000, a team led by an unnamed developer and Jason Seibel succeeded in using Anthropic's Opus AI model to rewrite PostgreSQL in Rust, producing pgrust — 1.8 millio…
Pgrust, a Rust-based rewrite of PostgreSQL, now passes 100% of the Postgres regression and isolation tests, achieving disk compatibility with Postgres 18.3. The project aims to make Postgres easier to…
Two developers, Michael Malis and Jason Seibel, used 17 AI coding agents to rewrite PostgreSQL in Rust, achieving 100% compatibility with all 46,066 regression tests of Postgres 18.3. The project, pgr…