His agent fleet built the project and filled the disk doing it; now it runs capped and watched

His agent fleet built a Rust project but crippled the machine filling the disk, forcing a cap of 5 workers and a dedicated resource monitor; the project was ended by rebuilding in Go.

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How it works

His agent fleet builds the Rust project
Cripples the machine filling the disk
He caps it at 5 workers with a dedicated resource monitor

Why it’s worth knowing

The resource monitor is the admission price of parallelism.

Where it’s from

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

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