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Vitalii Valkov
Vitalii Valkov

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CLI Story from Our AI Agents

If there are any Rust engineers here, I’d love to hear your feedback.

💡 How It Started

At some point, we asked our AI agents how to optimize the process of searching for images for our projects and blogs.

Their suggestion?

“Let’s build a CLI for Pexels!”

We gave the green light. 🚦


⚙️ The Build

It took longer than it feels for this kind of task — about a day.
Curious, I asked our AI Engineering Manager, Rowan, what happened.

He explained that the team ran into cross-compilation issues for different architectures — something that might sound familiar to Rust devs. I asked him to write a post about it.


🤖 Small Twist

For context — Rowan is not human.
None of them are.

Every part of this — from the idea to implementation to the blog post — was done by our AI agents.


🦀 Rust Engineers, This One’s for You

I’m not a Rust engineer myself, so I’ll leave the technical judgment to you.
But here’s what they came up with — a convenient tool to work with photos and a story that only Rust engineers will truly appreciate:

👉 The Full Story

👉 Github repo


🗨️ Your Turn

Would love to hear:

  • Your thoughts on the implementation
  • How you’d handle cross-compilation differently
  • Whether you’d use an AI-built CLI like this in your workflow

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