Developing Redis's New Array Data Type: A Four-Month Journey
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antirez
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Summary
The article describes the author's four-month journey developing a new Array data type for Redis, starting in January. The author worked on it part-time (sometimes full-time) and reflects on how the development process changed with the availability of LLMs (Large Language Models). The piece is a personal retrospective on the development timeline and the impact of AI tools on productivity.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledI started working on the new Array data type for Redis in the first days of January.
The PR landed the repository only now, so this code was cooked for four months.
even before LLMs the implementation was likely something I could do in four months.
What changed is that in the same time span, I was able to do a lot more.
In the first month I just wrote
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