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Dan Luu on pgrust: AI-Assisted Postgres Rewrite Signals New Dev Era

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Veteran engineer Dan Luu praises developer Michael Malis's project 'pgrust', which uses AI to rewrite Postgres in Rust. Despite skepticism about AI-generated code, the project uncovered multiple real bugs in Postgres through rigorous testing, demonstrating that with deep domain expertise, AI can significantly enhance software ambition and quality. The article highlights that as models improve, the level of expertise required to distinguish 'counterfeit' from genuine code is rising.

LATEST/Veteran engineer Dan Luu praises developer Michael Malis's project 'pgrust', which uses AI to rewrite Postgres in Rust. Despite skepticism about AI-generated code, the project uncovered multiple real bugs in Postgres through rigorous testing, demonstrating that with deep domain expertise, AI can significantly enhance software ambition and quality. The article highlights that as models improve, the level of expertise required to distinguish 'counterfeit' from genuine code is rising.

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    Dan Luu on pgrust: AI-Assisted Postgres Rewrite Signals New Dev Era

    • The pgrust project used AI to rewrite Postgres and uncovered multiple real underlying bugs (SP-GiST, JSONPath, pgcrypto) during testing.
    • Dan Luu argues that while low-quality AI projects are common, AI-assisted development combined with deep domain expertise enables more ambitious software refactoring.
    • As LLM capabilities improve, the difficulty for human experts to identify 'seemingly correct but flawed' counterfeit code increases, raising the professional barrier.
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