An Exercise in Agentic Coding: AV1 Encoder from Scratch in Rust

It&#x27;s a contentious time to be a software engineer. Some of us really love agentic coding, others hate it with passion. Some say it makes them super-productive, for others it&#x27;s just useless slop. Little over a year ago, I thought agentic coding was just a fad, I was even annoyed by the AI auto-complete. That is, until I tried Cline (VS Code plugin) in November 2024. It was then that I…