There's a new web browser project today that's a heck of a lot more impressive than the previous ones - ~20,000 lines of dependency-free Rust (though it uses system libraries for image and text rendering), does a good job of the Hacker News homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779522

Great. the one-agent-one-human repository by embedding-shapes is certainly quite nice and I had tried to re-create the results (within golang) though and I had failed but even within that I feel like maybe I learnt a lot of things (Also got to talk with emsh on bsky!)

It will also be very interesting to read simonw's comments on all of this too (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779522#46786824) when he had said:-

No, I'm still waiting to see concrete evidence that the "swarms of parallel agents" thing is worthwhile. I use sub-agents in Claude Code occasionally - for problems that are easily divided - and that works fine as a speed-up, but I'm still holding out for an example of a swarm of agents that's really compelling.

The reason I got excited about the Cursor FastRender example was that it seemed like the first genuine example of thousands of agents achieving something that couldn't be achieved in another way... and then embedding-shapes went and undermined it with 20,000 lines of single-agent Rust!

(I wonder what Simon thinks now of this, because from my skim of this article, they do seem to mention some tidbits about parallelism, Either way, I think that these projects are really adventurous and there is still something novel in all of this.)

(Edit: I have tried reading the blog post many times now but I am unable to understand how this is [working?] but something like cursor's project had turned to waste. Initially people were optimistic about cursor's project until emsh really showed them that it wasn't so good, I hope that this might not be the case here but still, I am just a bit confused as to why this in particular seems to work, kind of waiting for simon's post about it now :] )