An AI agent made the code 10× faster, but the results were terrible
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-07-23
The author jokes that when an agent rewrote the code, it became 10× faster — but the results were “absolute shit.” It captures a classic AI coding tradeoff: speed gains do not necessarily mean better outcomes.
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