"You know what’s great about Rust? It doesn’t let you compile crappy code. You know what sucks? Everything you write at the beginning **is * crappy code."* — Mr. Krabs, probably What’s better than an AI agent? An AI agent rewritten in Rust . If you’ve spent more than five minutes on the internet, you’re aware of the meme. It doesn’t matter what project—text editor, DNS server, BMI calculator. Someone will inevitably comment, "you should rewrite it in Rust." It’s the Rewrite It In Rust —RIIR for friends—and it’s as unavoidable as gravity. Well, I’m actually doing it. I’m going to port 8,300 lines of a Python AI agent to Rust. But not just because the meme demands it (okay, maybe a little). I’m doing it because I need a guinea pig. The thesis For weeks now, I’ve been writing about silent failures , about the five defenses against hallucinations , about how an LLM can generate code that compiles, passes tests, and is still wrong. I even gave it a name: adversarial development . Never trust, always verify.…