I really don't understand what's the big deal here. Anthropic converted Bun from Zig to Rust using Fable and used that for marketing, but do people blindly trust them? Also isn't Zig still unstable and from that perspective regardless of how they did it, wouldn't it make sense to migrate it to a stable language?

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krupan 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It's a big precisely because so many people are blindly trusting AI company marketing. It blows my mind how many people, especially here on once-subversive hacker news, are not just swallowing the marketing but they are doing the marketing for these companies for free. That's why it needs to be talked about!

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coldtea 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> but do people blindly trust them

Judging from internet posts and HN comments, many do.

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sajithdilshan 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Then that's their own fault. Nothing to do with Anthropic, it could have been any other company putting out marketing material and people blindly trust them.

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latexr 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I don’t understand the distinction you’re trying to make.

Yes, “it could have been any other company”, but it wasn’t, it was this one. Had it been any other company, we’d be talking about that other company; because it was this one, we’re talking about this one.

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sajithdilshan 2 hours ago | parent [-]

My point is that the article starts with > Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering

But that's true only if one believe what they are putting out blindly. Why not just call it a bluff and move on rather than making a mountain out of molehill

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