Had a super fun time last weekend rebuilding ripgrep in Go, doing some AI driven optimization. I was able to get it to beat most benchmarks across platforms, and learned a good amount along the way. www.steveyackey.com/blog/gripgre...
Gripgrep: Lessons in AI-Driven Optimization | Steve Yackey
What it takes to get AI agents through a hard optimization problem: real benchmarks, hard evidence, and the right tools — learned by rebuilding ripgrep in Go without writing any code by hand.
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