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Published by The Pragmatic Engineer (Gergely Orosz) (T1.5 source). The original is at https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-what-can-we-learn-from.

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Bun reportedly completed a Rust rewrite in 11 days using AI agents for $165K in tokens, a task estimated to take a small team a year. The newsletter also covers escalating competition among coding LLMs and continued issues with North Korean AI fakers in hiring.

Concrete cost and timeline figures for an AI-driven rewrite are rare and useful for sizing similar efforts, even within a broader newsletter roundup.

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