Iranian developer builds Zig AMP music player without LLM bulk generation

An Iranian developer built a minimal, native Zig-based music player named AMP after experiencing strict internet blackouts and censorship. Initially relying heavily on frontier LLMs to write the codebase, the author later faced an account ban and a no-AI policy, prompting a full code review that reduced the codebase size by half while improving robustness. Open article →