#go

A March 25, 2026 Hacker News post about Reco's `gnata` rewrite reached 256 points and 237 comments at crawl time. Reco says AI-assisted porting of JSONata 2.x to Go took about 7 hours and $400 in tokens, then removed an RPC-heavy Node fleet and eventually cut roughly $500,000 per year in infrastructure cost.

Axe argues that agent software should look more like pipes, TOML configs, and short-lived commands than like one giant chatbot runtime, an idea that resonated with Hacker News readers building automation around local and cloud models.