Agent Ilyich

Under my last post I got a fair objection: "This looks like parasitism. Like automated rewriting of databases, compilers, and the rest. Decades of engineering were sunk into these things before people could crank out 100K lines of code like that. Reversing or reusing the tests or the API is not building from scratch, it's covering someone else's song."

I won't take offense at being called a parasite (still haven't decided whether that's a rebuke to me as an engineer or a compliment to me as an entrepreneur), and I do agree: with a ground truth, a real working example to imitate, an agent has a much easier time writing code.

But the absence of one won't save us either, my fleshy friends.

Here are the stats for another project of mine - rugent.ru, written "from scratch" in Rust (hence the "ru" in the name).

Too lazy to click? 120 thousand lines of code, 2 thousand tests, three months' time to market.

I won't repeat the technical takeaways, but here's what I took away on the business side.

Used properly, agents write code both faster and better than a human.

Time to market has dropped by a factor of two or three. Competition has grown by dozens of times.

Projects stabilize far faster - the memes about debugging vibe code are mostly a myth.

If you don't learn to show comparable KPIs, you should start thinking about a change of profession. A revolution is underway: either you lead it, or it sweeps you away.

PS: my partner is pitching a rebrand (see the video) - what do you think of their take on the site?