And the company now has a bus-factor of 1.
If it's true.
The story is entirely believable but would the guy who lost their job to write it like this? That is rare.
He Rewrote Everything in Rust – Then We Got Fired
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#12> Rust didn’t fire us. But a Rust rewrite without team buy-in can change who the team even is.
Perhaps the most valuable paragraph of this sad story.
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#13Replaced by a health check! Anyway nice LLM drivel with whatever the standard linkedin system message is.
This is not just LLM drivel — It is drive by LLM drivel.
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#14Can people not use Medium? I'm not making an account just so I can read something.
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#15The detached, analytical tone (despite this supposedly happening to them), the simple character tropes, and obvious 'deeper message' are clear signs this is just a fable.
It's written by AI. I have made LLMs adopt the same tone by prompting to be engaging. Short sentences. Every point intended to land with impact. Artificial gravitas. I consider that a failed experiment and rewrote it, rather than posting to Medium
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#16This is slop. It has all the signs, and there are enough yellow flags that I'm not even sure this is real and not some weird fiction.
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#17The detached, analytical tone (despite this supposedly happening to them), the simple character tropes, and obvious 'deeper message' are clear signs this is just a fable.
I was half expecting it to end with "And Kabir's real name was Anthropic's Claude Code."
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#18Don't get me wrong, its plausible, but like why was this one guy able to replace everyone? yes he was faster and junk, but like what the fuck were all of you doing?
How was he able to replace an entire stack in less than a month without introducing huge amounts of logical errors?
The "healthcheck" that is provided is just junk. It gives you app uptime, great, but that's _useless_ without context. Oh its neat, but also fucking pointless. I'm not a node person, but you can write the same thing is ~12 lines of node.
Is this AI slop with some rage bait sprinkled in?
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#19And the company now has a bus-factor of 1.
It's a bullshit slop story.
But even if true, that's trivial to change hiring another dev (or Rust dev specifically) and giving it a couple of months to understand the architecture.
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#20The detached, analytical tone (despite this supposedly happening to them), the simple character tropes, and obvious 'deeper message' are clear signs this is just a fable.
This is basically the average rustacean's wet dream. But I can probably point out half a dozen reasons (without even thinking) why this wouldn't work in a realistic environment. Unless that one guy is literally a savant and the others are negative net contribution random monkey devs who were twiddling their thumbs all day at best. And in that case the end result would probably be the same, it has nothing to do with the specifics of this story.