Developer uses AI agents for 8,100 commits in 5 months
doodlestein · x · 2026-08-20
A developer shared the FrankenRedis project, a totally memory-safe and faster drop-in replacement for Redis. Notably, he has been "passively" assigning AI agents (Claude and GPT) to work on it for the past 5 months, resulting in 8,100 commits, demonstrating the use of AI agents for large-scale code generation.
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