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chilipepperhott • yesterday at 5:52 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Was the conversion assisted? I get the sense that Mold's author is an extremely competent guy and it would be quite feasible for someone like him to do it on his own.


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dmit • yesterday at 6:23 PM

> Was the conversion assisted?

Yes. Comment by mold's author:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1w45j6n/comment/p7ac5...

SuperV1234 • yesterday at 8:57 PM

He decided to use LLM assistance exactly because he's an extremely competent guy.

afdbcreid • yesterday at 6:21 PM

Assisted, yes. Claude is a coauthor for some of the commits and I think he also said that explicitly. Vibe-coded, he claims not.