Can today's AI build this 12-year-old $5/hour search engine gig?
kingslyj · x · 2026-11-02
lxe dug up a real 12-year-old freelance post: a founder wanted a PHP+MySQL search engine with crawlers and URL submissions for $5/hour, 14 hours max. kingslyj challenges current AI to replicate it within budget — a fun benchmark of how far coding AI has come.
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