Rust GUI veteran: years of hand-crafted code now reproduced by AI in hours
manosaie · x · 2026-11-13
A long-time Rust GUI framework developer describes an unsettling realization: after years of talks and hand-reviewing hundreds of thousands of lines of careful Rust (hotpatching, WASM bundle splitting, layout, state management), a one-line prompt like 'make it faster, use arenas' now produces the same result in hours.
His takeaway: 'We are not approaching the singularity. We are in it.' Productivity keeps rising while the meaning of deep technical craft erodes. The reblogger notes this sentiment will only become more common.
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