> It's so trivial, can't you ask your fancy LLM to do it for you?
They did. And the result was a React render loop that takes 16ms to output a hundred characters to screen and tells them it will take a year to rewrite: https://x.com/trq212/status/2014051501786931427
What's extra funny is that curses diffs a virtual "current screen" to "new screen" to produce the control codes that are used to update the display. Ancient VDOM technology, and plenty fast enough.
They did. And the result was a React render loop that takes 16ms to output a hundred characters to screen and tells them it will take a year to rewrite: https://x.com/trq212/status/2014051501786931427