One engineer plus agents ported Copilot agent runtime to Rust: 800k lines shipped
itsOmSarraf_ · x · 2026-09-22
GitHub shares how a single engineer working with a team of agents ported the Copilot agent runtime to Rust, shipping 800,000 lines of production code while retaining code quality. A landmark showcase of agent-assisted large-scale engineering, with details on how the workflow actually worked.
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