rust on tty

May 2026

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Nine things, Space, Rust, Pi? Oh my!

Asked about backlash to AI, Superhuman Mail CEO Rahul Vohra — whose company makes an AI-powered email assistant — seemed unfamiliar with the premise of the question. After hearing about poor polling around AI, he responded: “We don’t really see that.”

Building Pi with Pi

Keep in mind that AI has not increased the number of people who need software, or the number of maintainers who can review it. It has mostly increased the amount of code and the number of projects competing for attention. Some of that is healthy, but a lot of it fragments effort that should be shared.

If AI writes your code, why use Python?

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The argument from the title: Python’s ergonomics were optimized for humans, and humans are increasingly not the proximate authors. If the model is happy writing Rust, the case for the slower-runtime, weaker-typed alternative gets thinner.

The last twenty years of language choice were shaped by a single constraint: humans write the code, and humans are slow at low-level languages. That constraint is gone. Stack Overflow’s 2025 survey had Rust as the most-admired language for the tenth consecutive year at 72%, with Gleam at 70%, Elixir at 66%, and Zig at 64%. The stated preference was always there; the tooling finally caught up to the preference.

Zed 1.0

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I have been daily driving Zed since February and it’s been really great, surprisingly polished. I have barely touched SublimeText in this time. It has built in Helix mode for editing and configurable shortcut keymap for JetBrains, VSCode etc to minimise learning curve. Best performing editor/IDE I have ever used. I’m a little skeptical of business model but they’re promising basic editor to be free forever and sell AI subscription to be a viable business. It’s open source anyway and the code is worth a look.