Why didn't they just use AI to write their own Bun instead of wasting 8-9 figures on this company? Makes no sense.

furyofantares 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

From the article, Claude Code is being used extensively to develop Bun already.

> Over the last several months, the GitHub username with the most merged PRs in Bun's repo is now a Claude Code bot. We have it set up in our internal Discord and we mostly use it to help fix bugs. It opens PRs with tests that fail in the earlier system-installed version of Bun before the fix and pass in the fixed debug build of Bun. It responds to review comments. It does the whole thing.

You do still need people to make all the decisions about how Bun is developed, and to use Claude Code.

	▲	mjr00 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> You do still need people to make all the decisions about how Bun is developed, and to use Claude Code. Yeah but do you really need external hires to do that? Surely Anthropic has enough experienced JavaScript developers internally they could decide how their JS toolchain should work. Actually, this is thinking too small. There's no reason that each developer shouldn't be able to customize their own developer tools however they want. No need for any one individual to control this, just have devs use AI to spin up their own npm-compatible package management tooling locally. A good day one onboarding task!

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delaminator 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Deciding what to Implement

and

Implementing the Decisions

are complementary, one of these is being commoditised.

And, in fact, decimated.

Personally I am benefitting almost beyond measure because I can spend my time as the architect rather than the builder.

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postalrat 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because 90% is not 100%.

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fredoliveira 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Wasting" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

They're effectively bringing on a team that's been focused on building a runtime for years. The models they could throw at the problem can't be tapped on the shoulder, and there's no guarantee they'd do a better job at building something like Bun.

	▲	ok_dad 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Let me refer you back to the GP, where the CEO of Anthropic says AI will be writing most code in 12 months. I think the parent comment you replied to was being somewhat facetious.