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EditorDavid @ Slashdot 2 place · today 16:34 EDT

Ladybird Browser Stops Accepting Public Pull Requests

The Ladybird browser isn't opposed to AI coding tools, but it's just brought a new change to their code-contributing policies.

February 23: "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI."
I used Claude Code and Codex for the translation. This was human-directed, not autonomous code generation. I decided what to port, in what order, and what the Rust code should look like. It was hundreds of small prompts, steering the agents where things needed to go... The requirement from the start was byte-for-byte identica

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