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Just a cautionary case of porting to Rust using AI https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct...
Claude code C compiler passed 100% of gcc tests and couldn't even run a hello world...
What a time to be alive. So much of the fundamental dynamics of the industry and the job have changed in so little time. Basically over night. Some days I am so excited at how much I can do now. You can build anything you want, in basically no time! 100% of my software dreams can be a reality. Some days I am terrified at what's going to happen to the job market. Suddenly you can get so much with so little. The world…
> The world only needs so much software. Around the time of the dot com crash, there was a decent amount of rhetoric advising students and job seekers against getting into the software industry, because it was getting "too saturated." The thinking was there's just not that much work to go around, especially for the number of people flocking to the field. And the crash just reinforced that narrative. But even as a stu…
Yes, although I suggest being careful with that kind of thinking.
https://www.orwell.ru/library/novels/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier/...
They fork Zig to utilize LLM rewrites and build something the Zig team clearly disregarded (non-deterministic compiling)
And now like a whiny baby they LLM rewrite to Rust. There is a very real chance that Zig design philosophy got them to the point where they are now by enforcing to make the tough but precise decisions and the Rust rewrite is the start of the downfall.
It’s purely politics-based not technical, but it seems like bun is full on pampered by Claude. So much that I wouldn’t wonder that the next marketing piece of Anthropic is. Claude Mythos rewrote leading 950k LOC JS Runtime to Rust.
How many tokens did this port consume?
The answer is... more than any of us could likely afford.
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When Microsoft rewrote it in go, there was a comment from one of the leads that they chose it over rust because of the similarity in paradigms (garbage collection, etc), and that using rust would've been more difficult, requiring a lot of "hoop jumping". Now that you've done it... Thoughts?
Is GC useful for a static type checker? Or did they make a new runtime?
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> The world only needs so much software. Around the time of the dot com crash, there was a decent amount of rhetoric advising students and job seekers against getting into the software industry, because it was getting "too saturated." The thinking was there's just not that much work to go around, especially for the number of people flocking to the field. And the crash just reinforced that narrative. But even as a stu…
> Pretty much any cognitive thing we do manually could be done in software. Yes, although I suggest being careful with that kind of thinking. https://www.orwell.ru/library/novels/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier/...
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This is such a bad faith argument. How long would it take a dev or a team of devs to do this with the same architecture and test suite? A hell of a lot longer than 6 days..
But what is the purpose? When you rewrite a project in another language, it's for engineers to be able to maintain and further develop the project better on some metrics due to advantages of the language. It doesn't hold when LLM does the rewrite, since there is no one who understands the code after that. It's a good demonstration of capabilities, sure, but the result itself makes no sense. We'll have to figure out w…
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It’s disrespectful to immediately jump to adversarial conclusions from a simple desire to refactor and poor netiquette.
The right to be suspicious of the motives of powerful people is infinitely more important than protecting their feelings from being hurt by suspicion.
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cargo check reported over 16,000 compiler errors when I wrote that message. It could not print a version number or run JavaScript. I didn’t expect it to work this quickly and I also didn’t expect the performance to be as competitive. There’ll be a blog post with more details.
If this experiment ends up resulting in a real migration path, I think that would be completely awesome. Maybe it means we have a chance to revive older projects such as ngspice [0], but with modern affordances and better safety properties. From your post, though, it sounds like Bun may have been a pretty direct rewrite, without too many hard choices along the way. Is that fair? [0] https://ngspice.sourceforge.io/