Post B5ze66bdCqfeRJ3p8C by cwebber@social.coop
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 (DIR) Post #B5ze5nratH9MJJNnsG by cwebber@social.coop
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       So the "Bun being a vibe coded rewrite from Zig to Rust" is a different story than I think it's being sold as, from everything I can see. It's worth seeing several events laid out back to back.- Zig has a no AI contributions policy. They've explained their rationale: https://kristoff.it/blog/contributor-poker-and-ai/- Bun has a fork of Zig with AI generated changes. Zig's developers explain why they aren't merging them, and that they have their own path to relevant improvements https://ziggit.dev/t/bun-s-zig-fork-got-4x-faster-compilation-times/15183/19- Anthropic acquires Bun https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-bun-as-claude-code-reaches-usd1b-milestone- Bun is working on an experimental rewrite from Zig to Rust using Claude driven by the Bun lead, now working for Anthropic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880What does Bun's lead have to say about AIgen contributions to FOSS?> I expect OSS to go the opposite direction: no human contribution allowed. Slop will be a nostalgic relic of 2025 & 2026.https://xcancel.com/jarredsumner/status/2048434628248359284What can we make of this?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ze5oCVdVsdMBAVTU by lispi314@udongein.xyz
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       @cwebber >> I expect OSS to go the opposite direction: no human contribution allowed. Slop will be a nostalgic relic of 2025 & 2026.Completely delusional.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ze66bdCqfeRJ3p8C by cwebber@social.coop
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       Note that this rewrite has a lot of resources at its disposal. The porting.md file has a ton of direction, more than historically an LLM can keep track of: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5/docs/PORTING.mdBut Anthropic acquired Bun, so I imagine this project has effectively as many tokens to use as it wants.If this rewrite succeeds, this will effectively not only be a "fuck you Zig for not accepting my AIgen patches", it'll be a big headline and marketing story for Anthropic: look! Claude could rewrite Bun from Zig to Rust!It's hard for me to read this then as anything but an experiment to see if Anthropic can get a big marketing boost in favor of vibecoding from.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ze67fDH187ihkCLw by cwebber@social.coop
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       But this won't be an ordinary vibecoding story if it succeeds, but it might *look that way* from a marketing perspective. It has the lead maintainer giving a *ton* of guidance and perspective. It has the resources of Anthropic itself at its disposal. And it has the perfect story attached to it, so there's a lot to win if it succeeds, and little to lose if it doesn't, since the failure can just be ignored and they can move on.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ze84v0S2evmj41Gi by wakame@tech.lgbt
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       @cwebber while(not_ported_correctly) {  manually_add_guidelines();}
       
 (DIR) Post #B6KVZ4CeOsN27JGm1o by cwebber@social.coop
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       Update: Merged into main already https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412