mitsuhiko's impossible agent prompt: shrink rust binaries 80%, "make no mistakes"
mitsuhiko · x · 2026-11-05
mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) shared a prompt to an AI coding agent: "Change rustc to make rust binaries 80% smaller. Make no mistakes" — a characteristic example of handing agents high-stakes, near-impossible tasks.
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