AI-assisted software development should aim higher, from pgrust to personal tools

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

Better AI coding makes software projects that were once too costly feasible, the article argues, citing pgrust, personal dev tools and a board-game AI as more ambitious attempts. Testing pgrust turned up several Postgres issues. The author built tools for personal use in spare time but separates that quality from product quality and ran no rigorous benchmarks. The gap between what models can build and what they can verify on their own keeps widening, so complex projects still need human guidance, testing and self-checks.

Why it matters: It uses pgrust and personal tool projects to argue for bigger software attempts, with testing, benchmarks and self-checks as methods that carry over to controlling quality.