DHH Defends Elixir Results After Frontier Agents Fail to Speed It Up
dhh said he simply let two frontier AI agents maximize Elixir's performance and got the current results, inviting PRs to speed it up while questioning why the agents couldn't find Elixir's speedup switches, sparking debate over engineer accountability.
2026-10-07 ~ 2026-10-07 · 2 related posts
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