I Hate AI, so I Built a Compiler
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After burning 1.5 billion AI tokens (~$2,000) and shipping zero working code, a developer scrapped everything and built Ampersand in 48 hours — a deterministic dataflow language designed for AI-assisted development. It enforces 7 memory laws, pre-allocates all memory at startup, and uses a graph-based syntax where there's only one way to express logic, reducing AI hallucinations and token waste.
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