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> a terminal UI (TUI) on top of an agent loop. ... TypeScript, using Node.js as the framework and V8 for the execution engine, with Ink and React for UI. That’s a respectable choice for a TUI application

Who would respect that???

> And for the needs of a console application, the performance implications in terms of startup, responsiveness, throughput, and memory consumption are also reasonable

Literally none of those things are reasonable and are specific issues people complain about because their expectations formed by other TUI apps are broken with such an approach

> A project that would have taken a whole team of developers a year or two before agents

Or it would've been a project that took less time overall with the better designed stack from the beginning since it could avoid time spent on this rewrite and its pains

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Article is AI generated, maybe lightly human-edited.

> TypeScript, using Node.js as the framework and V8 for the execution engine

How this passes review is beyond me - Node.js is not a framework (at least not how the term is used in the industry) and there is not much choice for the engine since it comes with V8.

> That’s a respectable choice for a TUI application

Meaningless AI filler text.

> A project that would have taken a whole team of developers a year or two before agents

It would have taken a single person less than an hour to write a shorter blog post with the same information, before agents.

The downvote made me reconsider the way I posted, which was unnecessarily breathless by saying "How this passes review is beyond me". I will try not to use this style of writing in the future, which, although very human, is very human in a not so good way.

I think I do make a good point however that the article was very likely AI generated since it is difficult to see a human to write like that, and these are not the only examples of AI writing, the article is full of it.

I think it's fair to be critical of AI writing, especially when put out by a big organisation like GitHub. There was a time where you could click on an article published by the tech company whose product you use every day and expect to learn something interesting. It's another sign of the demise of a once great company.

Maybe you're not familiar with Stephen Toub, the author? I'm not saying for sure he didn't use AI at all on writing this piece however he is very well known for the time and effort he puts into his technical writing. Especially the performance improvements posts he writes for every new .net release.

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