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Comment by noosphr

25 days ago

Instead of asking for failures why not show me a success.

You're one of the most bullish people on AI, what's the open source codebase generated entirely by AI that has impressed you the most?

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simonw  25 days ago

Because I've played this game too many times before - I know that some people will find a hole in any example you show them.

So before doing that work, I want to get a feel for if you're asking this question in good faith and have done any active looking yourself.

(My favorite two recent open source examples are https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/27/one-human-one-agent-on... and https://github.com/antirez/flux2.c)

  • noosphr  25 days ago

    >>What's the open source codebase generated entirely by AI that has impressed you the most?

    >One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch

    I at least expect you to read my post before replying.

    • simonw  25 days ago

      What do you mean? Are you suggesting that the "one human" means it wasn't entirely written by AI?

      That's not the case, the "one human" there is the one human prompting it: https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/

      If your goalpost here is "no human involved at all" then it's a good thing I asked you what your goalposts were before spending any time on this!

      UPDATE: OK I think I see what's happened here! You're asking to see an open source repo that was built using the "dark factory" pattern, where no code was even reviewed by a human.

      I don't think I've seen one of those yet - I mean maybe that Cursor FastRender thing comes close?

      It's a very radical technique. I don't think many people are trying this yet - I haven't been brave enough to try it myself yet.

      I guess I kind of did that with my Python WASM library? That was an experiment in how far I could get with prompting and not reviewing, but it's not something I'd hold up as a shining example of how projects should be built: https://github.com/simonw/pwasm

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