buildConfirmed4 publishers Developer Brandon Thomas built WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft, early open-source clones of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, with Claude. TechSpot reports the project's own estimate at about 60% feature parity, with GridCraft about 50% ready for real work.
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Brandon Thomas used Claude and Rust to build ArtCraft, seven free apps modeled on Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro, TechRepublic reported. Early reviews found the look came easier than the function. A team weighing a switch should test file handling first.
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buildOne report1 publisher Rust's borrow checker lets a stack reference slip past a 'static bound on stable
Rust issue #164250 reports a borrow-checker unsoundness that reproduces on stable, with variants compiling since 1.18.0 in 2017. Exploiting it takes a deliberately hostile Drop impl, and the team downgraded it from P-critical to P-high.
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buildOne report1 publisher Rust's env!() macro wrote a desktop team's CI API keys into its release binaries
A year after moving its API keys from the repo to CI variables, a Rust and Tauri team found them in its release builds, a dev.to post says. The post says the keys, meant for transient CI use, now persist in every shipped release.
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buildOne report1 publisher Prime Intellect's 2,000-agent Rust port of Prime Agent is benchmarked only on harness overhead
Prime Intellect says over 2,000 agents rewrote Prime Agent in Rust, using more than 10,000 sandboxes and 200 billion-plus tokens. Its speed and memory gains were measured with inference excluded, so they describe harness overhead and leave coding-task time untested.
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buildOne report1 publisher Claude-written Rust port of Quake merged branches only after matching the original C engine
Solo developer ilreb used Anthropic's Claude Code to port id Software's 1996 Quake from C to safe Rust, playable in a browser. Every merge waited on a harness that diffs the port against id's original C engine, so the result is evidence for test-gated agent work where a runnable reference exists.
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buildOne report1 publisher Theo Browne's AI-written tsc-rs type-checks VS Code 13x faster than tsc 6
Theo Browne's AI-written Rust port of the TypeScript compiler type-checks VS Code 13x faster than tsc 6 and cost over $420,000 in tokens. Browne says he never read the code, so the 181,711 ported tests it passes are the main evidence that it behaves correctly.
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buildConfirmed3 publishers ArtCraft, a largely AI-written Rust project, releases open-source clean-room look-alikes of Photoshop, Premiere and Lightroom. Its solo developer targets full parity within a month, Tom's Hardware reported, and one person must now verify code that commenters have flagged for safety risks and missing features.
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Brandon Thomas used Claude Opus 5.5 and Rust to build free open-source recreations of seven Adobe apps, Photoshop and Premiere among them. For an occasional user the suite is already a workable Photoshop substitute, while anyone whose work depends on tools behaving predictably still has reason to pay Adobe.
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buildOne report1 publisher Rust's Miri fix leaves CI secrets sitting in GitHub Actions caches built before it
Rust's nightly of 22 September 2026 stops Miri copying environment variables into the target/ directories CI jobs cache. Caches saved earlier still hold any secret a Miri step saw, so teams have to delete them and rotate those credentials.
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buildOne report1 publisher Chrome 155 decodes JPEG XL natively through jxl-rs, a decoder rewritten in Rust
Google's Chrome 155 decodes JPEG XL natively with jxl-rs, the browser's first complete image decoder written in a memory-safe language. Any site can now serve .jxl images to Chrome without plugins or experimental flags, so the format is a production option for Chrome traffic.
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buildOne report1 publisher Cognition moves the Dioxus team onto Devin's virtual machines and testing systems
Dioxus engineers already had code running inside Devin's command line, and they arrive with a cloud harness that snapshots and forks virtual machines on five operating systems. Neither side called it an acquisition.
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buildOne report1 publisher Burn 0.22.0 strips backend generics from user code to cut recompile time 6.2x
Burn 0.22.0 takes backend generics out of user code, with a benchmark showing model edits recompiling 6.2x faster than in version 0.21. Its API now sits near the planned 1.0 form, so this is the release Rust ML teams should port to and test.
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buildOne report1 publisher vLLM's build now imports setuptools_rust unguarded, and that makes Rust non-optional
A dev.to walk-through pins the change to line 21 of setup.py: no try, no feature flag. Build vLLM from source and you own a Rust toolchain, plus a protoc you were never told about.
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buildOne report1 publisher Hansson's agent-built Rust Campfire posts a 166-fold benchmark gain on code he never inspected
David Heinemeier Hansson's agent-written Rust port of Campfire served 36,120 room-page requests a second to Rails' 217 in 37signals' own benchmark. A parity harness checks its behavior against Rails, but the numbers are company-run and stop short of production traffic.
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Google will give vetted defenders and its own teams a Gemini 4 Argon build with no cyber guardrails, saying the model finds and patches critical flaws unaided. Wiz is the first named outside user, and the bug-finding evidence published so far comes from Google's own internal tests.
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buildOne report1 publisher FTL's user-space kernel runs an unmodified Rust HTTP server without hardware virtualization
FTL ran an unmodified Rust HTTP server on its v0.0.1 user-space kernel in September, with no hardware virtualization underneath. Its claim of VM-grade isolation depends on the small shared kernel that every container still calls into.
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Cisco Talos links China-nexus UAT-11587 to 16 affected or targeted institutions in eight Asian countries, via a backdoor run through Microsoft 365. Its commands move through Outlook and OneDrive via Microsoft Graph, so defenders have no command server to block.
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buildOne report1 publisher 37signals now treats hand-written code as a bug to trace back to its agents
37signals has made hand-written code an exception handled like a Sentry bug and is rebuilding HEY as six native apps on a Rust backend. DHH's line counts come from his own slides, so the policy and the rebuild are what an engineering lead can actually judge.
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buildOne report1 publisher Any local user could write escape sequences to a tuxctl operator's terminal through a process name
tuxctl, a Rust system monitor built on Ratatui, let any local user write arbitrary bytes to its operator's terminal in every release before v0.3.0. Tools on the same stack that draw process names or journal text carry the same exposure unless they filter control bytes themselves.
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