The story of how a deterministic workload disguised itself as an AI task for fiv...
https://codex.everygoodwork.io/0x1C1Ee78b938Af5333D3a99BF659e9aa771d8A8D5/stop-wasting-ai-tokens-on-deterministic-tasks-build-local-rust-tools-insteadOverview
The story of how a deterministic workload disguised itself as an AI task for five months. The AI that did the work wrote the prompt that built the Rust binary that made itself unnecessary. The real tool was waiting to be built.
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