Dev joke: AI isn't AGI until it rewrites rustc for a 10x speedup

Amid the trend of AI rewriting tsc in Rust for a 10x speedup, developer theo joked that this is now routine, proposing a new AGI bar: AI must rewrite the Rust compiler rustc itself with a 10x speedup to count as real AGI.

2026-10-20 ~ 2026-10-20 · 2 related posts

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