One engineer at GitHub just shipped a project that was scoped at 2 years for a full team. It took him 14 weeks and about 3 weeks of his own attention. The AI bill came to $120,000. That's roughly $3M of engineering work for the price of a mid-range car. The project was rewriting the engine behind GitHub Copilot into a faster language, 832,378 lines of production code. Agents wrote almost all of it. Works out to 14 cents per line, and code written by hand at a company like GitHub costs dollars…

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Just one engineer and a team of agents ported the GitHub Copilot agent runtime to Rust, shipping 800,000 lines of production code while retaining code quality. 🚀 How it worked 👇 https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/migrating-the-github-copilot-runtime-to-rust-using-copilot/?utm_source=x-copilot-rust&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=github-app-cli-Q1-push