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GitHub and Anthropic used their own agents for major Rust rewrites — with very different playbooks

GitHub and Anthropic each used their own AI agents to carry out major Rust rewrites, according to The New Stack, with the two organizations following very different playbooks. The report ties the migrations to Rust's growing adoption as open-source projects and companies move core code to the language.

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Rust is seemingly the language of the moment, with open-source projects and companies forming an orderly queue to move core

The post GitHub and Anthropic used their own agents for major Rust rewrites — with very different playbooks appeared first on The New Stack.

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