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Vibe Coded X11 Server Written in Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support

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Re: Vibe Coded X11 Server Written in Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support

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Writing a new X server from scratch would have been an enormous undertaking two decades ago. (Keith Packard did Kdrive but he’s literally the foremost expert on X11.) Part of what motivated Wayland was the difficulty of maintaining the X server. How can we reconcile AI coding a functional X server with the assertions that AI is overrated and we’re in a bubble?

Every major technology advancement is followed by an economic bubble. Bubbles are economic, they are triggered by a landgrab following a technologic discontinuity.

Also, there are thousands of X11 servers in the training set, you could one-shot them at this point. Setup an RL loop and you can have it even work.

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