As expected [0] [1], this was a clear advertisement / marketing opportunity of Anthropic's Fable model on rewriting Bun (which powers Claude Code) from Zig into Rust.

Something that would have taken hundreds of developers now took 1 developer with Fable.

Now Claude, rewrite Claude Code from TypeScript to Rust. Make absolutely zero mistakes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073893

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240829

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steveklabnik 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

EDIT: the parent has effectively deleted their original comment

> There are a lot of ways to do a terrible job of this. For example, prompting Claude "Rewrite Bun in Rust. Don't make any mistakes." and then praying it would work is not what I did.

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rvz 6 hours ago | parent [-]

*whoosh* goes the joke.

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steveklabnik 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Hacker News does not have a meme-y culture, and this post takes this topic pretty seriously and is technically interesting.

It's not so much that I missed that it was a joke, I just don't think that it really added to the discussion.

What you've edited it to is a much better comment.

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rvz 6 hours ago | parent [-]

[flagged]

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QuaternionsBhop 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Jokes require mutual context. You failed to create a joke because you did not ensure the prerequisites were met.

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rvz 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> Jokes require mutual context.

The article itself is the context. Even the chatbots: ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini 'understand' the joke in the comment.

Go ahead and ask them.

> You failed to create a joke because you did not ensure the prerequisites were met.

The prerequisites was for you to read the article first.

The joke:

"Now Claude, rewrite Claude Code from TypeScript to Rust. Make absolutely zero mistakes."

You: ???

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minimaxir 2 hours ago | parent [-]

As steveklabnik noted above, Hacker News does not have a meme-y culture. Just because you made a joke doesn't mean it's inherently immune to criticism, especially when using the lowest-effort, most-overdone meme around agentic development adds nothing to the discussion. Get new material.

	▲	rvz 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> As steveklabnik noted above, Hacker News does not have a meme-y culture. For this one, yes it does. Go search this one up yourself. [0] Literally everyone in the comments in [0] and even the author of this post acknowledges the joke except for you two. It. Is. A. Joke. Calm down. > Just because you made a joke doesn't mean it's inherently immune to criticism No one is arguing that. It's OK that you won't admit that you didn't get it either. > especially when using the lowest-effort, most-overdone meme around agentic development adds nothing to the discussion. Get new material. You're being over-dramatic. Why is that you can't take a simple joke? Surely you've never joked on this site before. [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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merb 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

1 Developer with a 200k budget for tools.