Developers · Updated 11 Oct, 07:59 pm IST
DHH used AI agents to rewrite Campfire Once into Rust, Elixir and Go
Why it matters for readers: It demonstrates that AI agents don't replace thinking—ambiguous prompts lead to different, sometimes unwanted, results.
- DHH asked someone else to rewrite Campfire Once from Ruby on Rails to Rust because he does not want to read or write Rust code.1
- Additional rewrites of the project into Elixir and Go were also added.1
- The Hacker News post argues that using AI agents without reading the generated code can produce undesirable results.1
- The post highlights that underspecified prompts leave many implementation choices to chance, affecting non-functional behaviors such as backwards compatibility and performance trade-offs.1
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