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Anthropic acquires Bun

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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by wry_discontent »

sinatra wrote: post #224
bopbopbop7 wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird, AI writes terrible code for me that would never pass a code review. I guess people have different standards for good code.

Hah. It can’t be “I need to spend more time to figure out how to use these tools better.” It is always “I’m just smarter than other people and have a higher standard.”

The tools produce mediocre, usually working in the most technical sense of the word, and most developers are pretty shit at writing code that doesn't suck (myself included).

I think it's safe to say that people singularly focused on the business value of software are going to produce acceptable slop with AI.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by liuliu »

tyingq wrote: post #176
simonw wrote: post #105

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Anthropic may be losing money, but a company with $7bn revenue run rate ( https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-dario-amodei-americ... ) is a whole lot healthier than a company with a revenue of 0.

If I had the cash, I could sell dollar bills for 50 cents and do a $7b run rate :)

You are saying that you can raise $7b debt at double-digit interest rate. I am doubtful. While $7b is not a big number, the Madoff scam is only ~$70b in total over many years.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by satvikpendem »

reactordev wrote: post #226
satvikpendem wrote: post #158

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Search for pointer exceptions or core dumps on Bun's GitHub issues and you'll see why people (should) use Deno over Bun, if only because Rust is a way more safe language than Zig.

This is a non sequitur. Both Rust and Zig and any other language has the ability to end in an exception state. Whether it be kernel exception, pointer exception, or Rust's panic! - these things exist. The reason why you see so many GitHub issues about it is because that's where the development is. Deno is great. Bun is great. These two things can both be great and we don't have to choose sides. Deno has it's use case…

Don't make a false equivalence, how many times does one get a panic from Deno versus a segmentation fault in Bun? It's not a similar number, and it's simply wrong to say that both are just as unsafe when that's plainly untrue.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by simonw »

throwaway290 wrote: post #263
bopbopbop7 wrote: post #231

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So you pushed a PR that breaks a bunch of tests, added a 5 layer nested if branch block that mixes concerns all over the place, then ignored the reviewer for three weeks, and you’re surprised they didn’t approve it?

> So you pushed a PR that breaks a bunch of tests, added a 5 layer nested if branch block that mixes concerns all over the place, then ignored the reviewer for three weeks, and you’re surprised they didn’t approve it? ...Did you miss the part where Bun used Claude to generate that PR?:)

I misinterpreted that first comment too. To clarify:

1. User krig reports an issue against the Bun repo: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/24548

2. Bun's own automated "bunbot" filed a PR with a potential fix: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/24578

3. taylordotfish (not an employee of Bun as far as I can tell, but quite an active contributor to their repo) left a code review pointing out many flaws: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/24578#pullrequestreview-...

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by brobdingnagians »

smcleod wrote: post #234
bopbopbop7 wrote: post #188

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Weird, AI writes terrible code for me that would never pass a code review. I guess people have different standards for good code.

I suspect you do not know how to use AI for writing code. No offence intended - it is a journey for everyone. You have to be setup with the right agentic coding tool, agent rules, agent tools (MCP servers), dynamic context acquisition and workflow (working with the agent operate from a plan rather than simple prompting and hoping for the best). But if you're lazy, don't put the effort in to understand what you're wor…

Do you know of any YouTube videos where you would say they do a very good job of showing off this style of coding?

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by koakuma-chan »

ChrisbyMe wrote: post #209
TekMol wrote: post #204

What is the business model behind open source projects like bun? How can a company "aquire" it and why does it do that? In the article they write about the early days We raised a $7 million seed round Why do investors invest into people who build something that they give away for free?

I mean if you're getting X number of users per day and you don't need to pay for bandwidth or anything, there's gotta be SOME way to monetize down the line. If your userbase or the current CEO likes it or not.

Ads. Have you seen the dotenv JavaScript package?

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by [deleted] »

smcleod wrote: post #234
bopbopbop7 wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird, AI writes terrible code for me that would never pass a code review. I guess people have different standards for good code.

I suspect you do not know how to use AI for writing code. No offence intended - it is a journey for everyone. You have to be setup with the right agentic coding tool, agent rules, agent tools (MCP servers), dynamic context acquisition and workflow (working with the agent operate from a plan rather than simple prompting and hoping for the best). But if you're lazy, don't put the effort in to understand what you're wor…

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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by giancarlostoro »

mpeg wrote: post #143
giancarlostoro wrote: post #121

Sounds like the goal is to bundle up Bun with Claude Code insanely tightly, to the point where it doesn't matter if you have nodejs installed locally, but also they can optimize key things for Claude Code's Bun runtime as needed. It's a brilliant acquisition, and bun stays open source, which allows it to continue to grow, to Anthropics benefit and everyone else's.

A nice start would probably be for Claude Code to stop trying to use npm when it detects a bun lockfile and vice versa...

Yeah Claude is very good, but it definitely needs to get "smarter" in some nuanced areas.
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