How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code)
I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI influencer "built 15 apps in a weekend" crowd, but Claude Code just did something wild for me. Had it help us rip out our entire search engine - we're talking millions and millions of records, thousands of tenants - and migrate it from SQL Server full-text search to a small embedded, in-process Lucene port. Search went from 7-8 seconds down to milliseconds.