Comment by Aissen
7 hours ago
I expected this to be a multi-months rewrite, not 3 weeks. I almost forgot we live in the agents era now.
Edit: this seems to have been cooking for a while when the first commit dropped: https://github.com/rui314/mold/commit/f41bfcd5c72ca30cce6498...
Was the conversion assisted? I get the sense that Mold's author is an extremely competent guy and it would be quite feasible for someone like him to do it on his own.
> Was the conversion assisted?
Yes. Comment by mold's author:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1w45j6n/comment/p7ac5...
He decided to use LLM assistance exactly because he's an extremely competent guy.
Assisted, yes. Claude is a coauthor for some of the commits and I think he also said that explicitly. Vibe-coded, he claims not.