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A local LLM helped him build a safe bare-metal starter system in a week

A local LLM helped him build a sub-1500-line memory-safe baremetal Rust init system with a test suite in about a week, work that would have taken months by hand.

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  1. A local LLM helps him build a sub-1500-line memory-safe bare-metal Rust init system with a test suite
  2. Done in about a week
  3. A job that would have taken months by hand

Why it’s worth knowing

Small and safe is the hard combination; the tests are the receipt.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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