We should be more ambitious with the software we build
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Dan Luu's essay argues that developers should be more ambitious with the software they build, using Michael Malis's pgrust project as a case study. The project, a Postgres rewrite, is widely dismissed as AI-generated slop, but its thorough testing has surfaced real Postgres bugs, and its performance work may influence…