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A rewrite of 65,000 lines from one language to another for $400 of agent time

He used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust at a cost of $400.

$400one time

How it works

  1. He uses the agent to rewrite 65,000 lines from Go to Rust
  2. At a cost of $400

Why it’s worth knowing

$400 against a team's quarter is the whole economics of this dataset in one line.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on iurii.net. See the original ↗

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