I am having the AI rewrite all my Bluesky bots in Rust

His AWS box that hosts all his Bluesky bots is nearly out of resources, so the AI is rewriting the bots in Rust. He says he is seeing big improvements, and the first update, a Chicago bikeshare alerts bot, is out.

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How it works

The AI refactors all his bots in Rust
The first update ships for the Chicago bikeshare station alerts bot

Why it’s worth knowing

He does not know Rust at all, but the AI is rewriting his working bots in Rust and the new versions run better.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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