Urlx: An AI-Agent-Generated Rust Replacement for curl/libcurl

Summary

A developer named Jon Wiggins published 'urlx,' an open-source Rust-based replacement for curl and libcurl that was reportedly generated entirely or primarily by an AI coding agent. The project, shared as a Show HN post on Hacker News, positions itself as a demonstration of agentic AI capabilities applied to systems programming — specifically rewriting a foundational networking tool in a memory-safe language. The project is notable as a concrete example of AI agents producing non-trivial, stand