I Don’t Know Rust, But My AI Does. And It Just Built a PHP Engine That Runs WordPress.
A non-Rust developer used an AI to build a PHP engine that renders WordPress. 17% of PHP-src tests passed, but that was enough. The experiment reveals that the real constraint isn’t AI’s coding ability — it’s the quality of test suites. This is both thrilling and terrifying: AI lowers barriers to entry, but creates systems humans can’t maintain.