I Don't Know Rust. My AI Is Rewriting PHP in It Anyway.
I can't write a lexer. I pointed an AI at PHP's own 22,000-test suite, started saying 'looks good, continue' — and now the thing renders a WordPress page.
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Built a 10k-Player Game Server in Elixir. I Don't Speak Elixir.
An honest tour of what's actually doing the work when you ship a real codebase with an agent — and the very specific way a newer developer would crash and burn trying the same thing.
Part 2: From cct to cad — when a personal fork stops being a fork
Part 2. I said I'd keep my claude-code-transcripts fork to myself. Then I added five more agents, a real session manager, a destructive folder rename, and eventually a new name. It's not Simon's tool anymore.
What I Learned Building My Own Coding Agent
The gap between 'minimum viable agent' and 'an agent you'd actually use' is where 95% of the work lives. Here's what I found in there.