fastrender

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rvz·Jul 10, 2026

How is that going for Claude's C compiler [0], or Cursor's web browser? [1] [0] https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler [1] https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender

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rvz·Jul 6, 2026

> As of writing, Claude Code CLI only has around 9100 open Github issues, with small unresolved issues like it completely freezing for the last 6+ months or a screen flickering issue open for more than a year. But surely those fully autonomous coding loops will solve all those 9,100+ open issues on GitHub? Why haven't they? What happened to Claude's C Compiler [0], or that browser "built from scratch" by Cursor? [1] Why aren't the agents maintaining it if they are supposed to be cheaper than humans? > But why do they have us by the balls? Dario and Boris have us convinced that “coding is solved” with their loops. But microwaves didn’t solve cooking. They have you by the balls if you allow them to, if you continue to listen to their bullshit. Both of them are essentially salesmen at this point. They don't care if they are wrong and will se

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ll Claude to whoever is thinking of planning the next mass layoff. Their definition of "AGI" is different to yours. The correct answer to all of this pricing nonsense that Anthropic and others are doing is local open weight models that you run on your own machine. They know this and powerful local models undercut their entire business model if hosted by others or if a smaller local model matches the performance of larger ones. [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler [0] https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender

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