antirez: ablation study needed on whether coding agents do better in C than Rust
antirez · x · 2026-11-01
antirez notes many recent AI-driven rewrites use Rust, and argues an ablation study is needed: have the agent do the same task in C to see how much faster or better the output really is.
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