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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by krig »

simonw wrote: post #274
throwaway290 wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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://gi…

Right, this is accurate. Except I thought taylordotfish worked for bun, so I guess no one at bun has looked at it at all then.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by pjmlp »

n42 wrote: post #450
defen wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find comments like this fascinating, because you're implicitly evaluating a counterfactual where Bun was built with Rust (or some other "interesting" language). Maybe Bun would be better if it were built in Rust. But maybe it would have been slower (either at runtime or development speed) and not gotten far enough along to be acquired by one of the hottest companies in the world. There's no way to know. Why did Ant…

Don't engage with this guy, he shows up in every one of these threads to pattern match back to his heyday without considering any of the nuance of what is actually different this time.

Look an admirer!

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by ojame »

fishmicrowaver wrote: post #475
dts wrote: post #395

A lot of people seem confused about this acquisition because they think of Bun as a node.js compatible bundler / runtime and just compare it to Deno / npm. But I think its a really smart move if you think of where Bun has been pushing into lately which is a kind of cloud-native self contained runtime (S3 API, SQL, streaming, etc). For an agent like Claude Code this trajectory is really interesting as you are creating…

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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

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by abnercoimbre »

losvedir wrote: post #446
Jarred wrote: post #361

I work on Bun. Happy to answer any questions

I'm sort of surprised to see that you used Claude Code so much. I had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types, about small programs, exquisitely hand-written, etc, etc. And I know Bun started with an extreme attention to detail around performance. I would have thought LLM-generated code would run a bit counter to both of those. I had sort of carved t…

Handmade Cities founder here.

We never associated with Bun other than extending an invitation to rent a job booth at a conference: this was years ago when I had a Twitter account, so it's fair if Jarred doesn't remember.

If Handmade Cities had the opportunity to collaborate with Bun today, we would not take it, even prior to this acquisition. HMC wants to level up systems while remaining performant, snappy and buttery smooth. Notable examples include File Pilot [0] or my own Terminal Click (still early days) [1], both coming from bootstrapped indie devs.

I'll finish with a quote from a blog post [2]:

> Serious Handmade projects, like my own Terminal Click, don’t gain from AI. It does help at the margins: I’ve delegated website work since last year, and I enjoy seamless CI/CD for my builds. This is meaningful. However, it fails at novel problems and isn’t practical for my systems programming work.

All that said, I congratulate Bun even as we disagree on philosophy. I imagine it's no small feat getting acquired!

[0] https://filepilot.tech

[1] https://terminal.click

[2] https://handmadecities.com/news/summer-update-2025/

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by Aurornis »

losvedir wrote: post #446
Jarred wrote: post #361

I work on Bun. Happy to answer any questions

I'm sort of surprised to see that you used Claude Code so much. I had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types, about small programs, exquisitely hand-written, etc, etc. And I know Bun started with an extreme attention to detail around performance. I would have thought LLM-generated code would run a bit counter to both of those. I had sort of carved t…

> I had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types, about small programs, exquisitely hand-written, etc, etc.

In my experience, the extreme anti-LLM people and extreme pro-vibecoding people are a vocal online minority.

If you get away from the internet yelling match, the typical use case for LLMs is in the middle. Experienced developers use them for some small tasks and also write their own code. They know when to switch between modes and how to make the most of LLMs without deferring completely to their output.

Most of all: They don't go around yelling about their LLM use (or anti-use) because they're not interesting in the online LLM wars. They just want to build things with the tools available.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by krig »

bopbopbop7 wrote: post #231
krig wrote: post #171

This announcement made me check in on the arbitrary code execution bug I reported that the Bun Claude bot created a PR for about 3 weeks ago: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/24578 So far, someone from the bun team has left a bunch of comments like > Poor quality code ...and all the tests still seem to be failing. I looked through the code that the bot had generated and to me (who to be fair is not familiar with t…

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?

I just reported the bug, it was the bot that was proudly mentioned in the announcement which created the PR and the code...

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by Supercompressor »

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?

Free now isn't free forever. If something has inherent value then folks will be willing to pay for it.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by LexiMax »

losvedir wrote: post #446
Jarred wrote: post #361

I work on Bun. Happy to answer any questions

I'm sort of surprised to see that you used Claude Code so much. I had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types, about small programs, exquisitely hand-written, etc, etc. And I know Bun started with an extreme attention to detail around performance. I would have thought LLM-generated code would run a bit counter to both of those. I had sort of carved t…

> I had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types, about small programs, exquisitely hand-written, etc, etc.

I feel like an important step for a language is when people outside of the mainline language culture start using it in anger. In that respect, Zig has very much "made it."

That said, if I were to put on my cynical hat, I do wonder how much of that Anthropic money will be donated to the Zig Software Foundation itself. After all, throwing money at maintaining and promoting the language that powers a critical part of their infrastructure seems like a mutually beneficial arrangement.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by tshaddox »

simonw wrote: post #398
elktown wrote: post #389

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this acquihiring?

No. Anthropic need Bun to be healthy because they use it for Claude Code.

Isn't that still "acqui-hiring" according to common usage of the term?

Sometimes people use the term to mean that the buyer only wants some/all of the employees and will abandon or shut down the acquired company's product, which presumably isn't the case here.

But more often I see "acqui-hire" used to refer to any acquisition where the expertise of the acquired company are the main reason to the acquisition (rather than, say, an existing revenue stream), and the buyer intends to keep the existing team dynamics.

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