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@cwebber It currently seems to be a trend that whatever code they're needing for their own projects (speculation) they try to fumble through AI first and bitch about it if the author/maintainer is unwilling to support them.

If the code is working and safe, what benefit would it have to convert this to a different programming language at all? Just because they like "this one" better?

@cwebber Remember, we are some negative 20 months (or so) in "no human programmer" era.

@cwebber It'll get interesting if/when Rust also commits to a "no AI contributions to the compiler + core" policy...

@cwebber that I'm now paranoid that by "doing research on competing implementations" he means "copycatting Kat's work" and now I'm glad that I've stopped working on orogene in public.

@cwebber that Zig should stay the course and not let Bun nor Anthropic live rent-free in their minds nor repository ―because they will fail.

of course, they won't admit it, but given their sloppy record debugging, securing and documenting the shit they extrude with AI, someone will need what they originally wanted: Zig.

beside staying the course, they should lawyer up and have them review any licensing infringements.

@cwebber i would love to tell this guy in the twitter post. "I would rather read the opinion of an ai about that topic than reading your opinion about this topic".

I do not know much but giving infinite money to some folks seems to cause issues..

@cwebber

What can we make of this?

Silicon Valley White Men need therapy, badly, because they're out of touch with reality.

@cwebber I'll have what the Bun guy's having. Seems strong

@cwebber
> Bun is working on an experimental rewrite from Rust to Zig

You wrote that backwards; it's a rewrite from Zig to Rust.

@cwebber ...wow. Read that thread on xcancel and there is some weapons-grade wishcasting going on. I'm assuming this dude thinks AI will also give him a pony and a lollipop when he asks too.

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.md

But 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.