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…
A new JIT compiler built with AI assistance compiles code in about 5 microseconds, enabling JIT compilation of every SQL query in the pgrust database, according to a blog post by its developer. The po…
AI assistance is making it easier to write JIT compilers with fast compile times by directly targeting assembly, according to a developer building the pgrust database. The author demonstrates building…
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…
After four attempts and spending $100,000, a team led by an unnamed developer succeeded in using Anthropic's Opus to rewrite PostgreSQL in Rust, producing 1.8 million lines of idiomatic Rust code call…
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…
A developer explores pgrust, a project that rewrites PostgreSQL in Rust and now passes 100% of the original regression tests. The project promises enhanced safety and performance for database infrastr…
A Rust rewrite of PostgreSQL called pgrust now passes 100% of PostgreSQL 18.3's regression tests, matching expected output across more than 46,000 queries. The project aims to make PostgreSQL easier t…