AI-Assisted Development

What Is the AST-grep Tree-sitter Rust Rewrite? AST-grep, the popular structural code search tool with over 15,000 GitHub stars, rewrote Tree-sitter’s C parsing core entirely in Rust using ChatGPT-assisted code generation. The result is a 29.74% improvement in raw parsing throughput and a 22.2% faster end-to-end code analysis pipeline, making it significantly faster for AI coding agents and developer tools that rely on syntax-tree-based code understanding. Why Did AST-grep Rewrite Tree-sitter in Rust? Tree-sitter has been the gold standard for incremental parsing in code editors since its release. Its C core is battle-tested and powers syntax highlighting in editors like Neovim, VS Code, and Zed. But AST-grep’s use case is fundamentally different from an editor’s. ...

Why Your AI Coding Tool Choice Matters for Your Career I’ve been watching hiring patterns shift over the past 18 months, and one thing is clear: the AI coding tool you use has become a career signal whether you like it or not. In 2024, listing “Copilot” on your resume was a curiosity. In 2025, it was table stakes. In 2026, hiring managers are actively screening for which tools you use and how you use them. The Stack Overflow 2025 survey reported that 84% of developers use AI coding tools, with 47.1% using them daily. When nearly half the industry uses these tools every single day, the question is no longer “Do you use AI?” — it’s “Which tools do you use, and are you any good with them?” ...

Why Your AI Coding Tool Choice Matters for Your Career I’ve been watching hiring patterns shift over the past 18 months, and one thing is clear: the AI coding tool you use has become a career signal whether you like it or not. In 2024, listing “Copilot” on your resume was a curiosity. In 2025, it was table stakes. In 2026, hiring managers are actively screening for which tools you use and how you use them. The Stack Overflow 2025 survey reported that 84% of developers use AI coding tools, with 47.1% using them daily. When nearly half the industry uses these tools every single day, the question is no longer “Do you use AI?” — it’s “Which tools do you use, and are you any good with them?” ...