Michael Malis

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…

Dan Luu argues that AI has made software performance optimization accessible to everyone, eliminating the need for rare expertise, and that dynamic custom software fitted to specific workloads is beco…

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…