Human Folly about “fastrender”

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• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  #HN discussion of #Cursor’s #fastrender finds that it depends on the html5ever, cssparser, rquickjs, selectors, resvg, egui, wgpu, tiny-skia, and tungstenite Rust crates, so not only doesn’t it build, it’s just wrapping Servo.

  on 02026-01-16
• Cursor implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io):

  Criticism of #Cursor’s claim to have built the #fastrender browser with #AI in a few weeks.

  on 02026-01-16
• Scaling agents (cursor.com):

  #Cursor’s attempts to get #AI #neural-networks to write software autonomously for weeks: lockfiles, planners and workers, etc. Suspiciously, the "fastrender" GitHub repo fails to compile. #toread

  on 02026-01-15