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Re: Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite

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Post by jakobnissen » Sat, May 23, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC

christophilus wrote: post #13

consumer451 wrote: post #2

I have to say, this whole saga is extremely interesting. Not just from a popcorn-enjoyer's point of view, but as a bit of a bell weather for 2026 software dev.

Time will tell. I predict this is just the same 20 year pattern of: people on the internet are irate about $latest_thing, and everyone will move on to some other hot topic.

But surely, whether or not the Internet mob moves on has no bearing on what actual lessons to learn from this saga. Will the vibe rewrite turn out to be a disaster or are LLMs already capable of writing human level code at this scale? That question is interesting no matter the level of attention this gets.

Re: Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 23, 2026, 2:48 PM UTC

asdfsa32 wrote: post #24

3as-123 wrote: post #10

Great, the author speaks out what everyone thinks but cannot say, either due to being invested in the hype or due to effectively having a gag order from their employers: https://xcancel.com/YoavCodes/status/2058170216408813583#m The bun rewrite was Anthropic's Vietnam and the open source community needs to react and and build resistance.

In many a brand name company now tokenmaxxing is the name of the game; CryptoBase, FacePaper, AntiqueOptics, tinyflacid, they all use AI usage metrics as part of their perf review these days.

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Re: Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite

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Post by stephbook » Sat, May 23, 2026, 2:50 PM UTC

jakobnissen wrote: post #31

christophilus wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Time will tell. I predict this is just the same 20 year pattern of: people on the internet are irate about $latest_thing, and everyone will move on to some other hot topic.

But surely, whether or not the Internet mob moves on has no bearing on what actual lessons to learn from this saga. Will the vibe rewrite turn out to be a disaster or are LLMs already capable of writing human level code at this scale? That question is interesting no matter the level of attention this gets.

I'm believe projects that pin old versions or maintain their own shoddy fork will be left behind. Deprecation is fine.

Re: Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite

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Post by sheeshkebab » Sat, May 23, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC

contextcost wrote: post #21

qsera wrote: post #3

I think it makes sense to stay away from large code bases built using LLMs until it is proven that it is possible to also maintain such code bases using LLMs or using reasonable human effort.

I have an idea on how to tell if a codebase is rotting under AI Agent maintenance. We can collect and analyze how the coding agent reads code during programming tasks, and see if the code access and token consumption are steadily increasing for similar development tasks. If the code readability doesn't degrade for the agent, the maintainability of the codebase should be fine.

Mist of human written codebases are unusable for llm dev by that definition.

Re: Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite

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Post by avinassh » Sat, May 23, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

TIL electrobun. How does it compare against electron?

Re: Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite

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Post by ibejoeb » Sat, May 23, 2026, 2:55 PM UTC

consumer451 wrote: post #2

I have to say, this whole saga is extremely interesting. Not just from a popcorn-enjoyer's point of view, but as a bit of a bell weather for 2026 software dev.

People are going to be using a lot less software if the selection criteria include not being no agents.

Re: Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite

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Post by u_fucking_dork » Sat, May 23, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC

ramon156 wrote: post #18

u_fucking_dork wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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What a weird take. Might as well give up on anything you care about, as its only an "x"

You shouldn’t feel slapped in the face if someone chooses a programming language you don’t like. Full stop.

Re: Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite

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Post by tln » Sat, May 23, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC

chuckadams wrote: post #27

I'm not joining the chorus condemning Bun for the vibe-rewrite, and I think it's fascinating whether it turns out to be a complete trainwreck or not. But FFS, it should have been a separate repo.

What? Why? Git has branches...

Re: Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite

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Post by chuckadams » Sat, May 23, 2026, 3:06 PM UTC

tln wrote: post #38

chuckadams wrote: post #27

I'm not joining the chorus condemning Bun for the vibe-rewrite, and I think it's fascinating whether it turns out to be a complete trainwreck or not. But FFS, it should have been a separate repo.

What? Why? Git has branches...

Right, but it's my understanding that it was done as a PR that was merged to `main`. Sure, anyone could find the last Zig commit and branch off of that, so I guess it's all po-tay-to po-tah-to.

Re: Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite

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Post by shimman » Sat, May 23, 2026, 3:07 PM UTC

impulser_ wrote: post #16

mentalgear wrote: post #14

While I'm certainly sceptical of pure LLM (re)-written software, I would have to assume in the case of the cyberattack vector that Anthropic used their new Mythos model to adequately test against. Maybe someone has more info of them mentioning that.

Jarred said this had nothing to do with Mythos or Anthropic.

The concept of a "useful fool" is apt here.