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Anthropic acquires Bun

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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by mayo369 »

notnullorvoid wrote: post #708

I am more shocked about the origin story compared to the acquisition. > Almost five years ago, I was building a Minecraft-y voxel game in the browser. The codebase got kind of large, and the iteration cycle time took 45 seconds to test if changes worked. Most of that time was spent waiting for the Next.js dev server to hot reload. Why in the hell would anyone be using Next.js to make a 3D game... Jarred has always se…

Maybe same for anthropic, they can simply write agent using Rust/Go. Instead they decide to buy and develop a JavaScript runtime.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by [deleted] »

mrcsharp wrote: post #569
wiseowise wrote: post #557

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> C#'s speed advantage over JS among many other things would make C# the main language Nobody cares about this, JS is plenty fast for LLM needs. If maximum performance was necessary, you're better off using Go because of fast compiler and better performance.

> Nobody cares about this And that was my point. The choice of using JS/TS for LLM stuff was made for us based on initial wave of SDK availabilities. Nothing to do with language merits.

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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by solumunus »

delaminator wrote: post #369
mjr00 wrote: post #245

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Why didn't they just use AI to write their own Bun instead of wasting 8-9 figures on this company? Makes no sense.

Deciding what to Implement and Implementing the Decisions are complementary, one of these is being commoditised. And, in fact, decimated. Personally I am benefitting almost beyond measure because I can spend my time as the architect rather than the builder.

Same. I don’t understand how people aren’t getting this yet. I’m spending all day thinking, planning and engineering while spending very little time typing code. My productivity is through the roof. All the code in my commits is of equal quality to what I would produce myself, why wouldn’t it be? Sure one can just ask AI to do stuff and not review it and iterate, but why on earth would one do that? I’m starting to feel that anyone who’s not getting this positive experience simply isn’t good at development to begin with.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

KK7NIL wrote: post #148
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #134

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If it was an acquihire, still a lot less slimy than just offering the employees they care about a large compensation package and leaving the company behind as a husk like Amazon, Google and Microsoft have done recently.

Is it? What's wrong with hiring talent for a higher salary? You have no responsibility for an unrelated company's operations; if that was important to them they could have paid their talent more.

Who should be paying the founders more? The ones that made a deal with the VCs? They would be hired away from the company.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by [deleted] »

mrcsharp wrote: post #499
ojame wrote: post #483

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Currently Claude etc. can interact with services (including AWS) via MCPs. What the user you're replying to is saying the Bun acquisition looks silly as a dev tool for Node. However if you look at their binding work for services like s3[0], the LLM will be able to interact directly with cloud services directly (lower latency, tighter integration, simplified deployment). 0: https://bun.com/docs/runtime/s3

That doesn't make sense either. Agents already have access to MCPs and Tools. Your example is solved by having an S3 wrapper as a set of tools.

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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by Aeolun »

notnullorvoid wrote: post #708

I am more shocked about the origin story compared to the acquisition. > Almost five years ago, I was building a Minecraft-y voxel game in the browser. The codebase got kind of large, and the iteration cycle time took 45 seconds to test if changes worked. Most of that time was spent waiting for the Next.js dev server to hot reload. Why in the hell would anyone be using Next.js to make a 3D game... Jarred has always se…

> He could've saved so much time and avoided building a whole new runtime by simply not using the completely wrong tool for the job.

True, but where is the fun in that?

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by mock-possum »

notnullorvoid wrote: post #708

I am more shocked about the origin story compared to the acquisition. > Almost five years ago, I was building a Minecraft-y voxel game in the browser. The codebase got kind of large, and the iteration cycle time took 45 seconds to test if changes worked. Most of that time was spent waiting for the Next.js dev server to hot reload. Why in the hell would anyone be using Next.js to make a 3D game... Jarred has always se…

Most people use what they know. You start out that way, and if it turns out to be good, you can always do a v2

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by johncolanduoni »

notnullorvoid wrote: post #708

I am more shocked about the origin story compared to the acquisition. > Almost five years ago, I was building a Minecraft-y voxel game in the browser. The codebase got kind of large, and the iteration cycle time took 45 seconds to test if changes worked. Most of that time was spent waiting for the Next.js dev server to hot reload. Why in the hell would anyone be using Next.js to make a 3D game... Jarred has always se…

He may have been serving a game in a canvas hosted in a Next.js app, but have done all the actual game (rendering, simulation, etc.) in something else. That’s a decent approach - Next can handle the header of the webpage and the marketing blog or whatever just fine.
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