See the first report in this series in this series for context on our goal of teaching LLMs to one-shot complex backends at scale. To summarize, we’re working towards one-shotting a scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance implementation of the entire Matrix spec, which is orders of magnitude more difficult than…
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I’m going to cover a lot of ground in this post, so here’s the TLDR: We built a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code. This is 100x less code than the ~1M lines Twi…