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re-thctoday at 6:21 PM3 repliesview on HN

Congrats...

> Long-term stability. a home and resources so people can safely bet their stack on Bun.

Isn't it the opposite? Now we've tied Bun to "AI" and if the AI bubble or hype or whatever bursts or dies down it'd impact Bun.

> We had over 4 years of runway to figure out monetization. We didn't have to join Anthropic.

There's honestly a higher chance of Bun sticking out that runway than the current AI hype still being around.

Nothing against Anthropic but with the circular financing, all the debt, OpenAI's spending and over-valuations "AI" is the riskier bet than Bun and hosting.


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Lermatroidtoday at 6:26 PM

Yeah that’s the main part that puzzled me, super happy for the team that they got a successful exit, but I wouldn’t really consider Anthropic’s situation to be stable…

phantasmishtoday at 6:25 PM

Yeah, no reader of tech news will take an acquisition of a company with four years of runway as anything but decreasing the odds their product will still be around (and useful to the same audience…) in four years. Even without being tied to a company with lots of exposure to a probable bubble.

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ricopagstoday at 6:24 PM

I say don't muddy the water with the public panic over "will it won't it" bubble burst predictions.

The effective demand for Opus 4.5 is bottomless; the models will only get better.

People will always want a code model as good as we have now, let alone better.

Bun securing default status in the best coding model is a win-win-win

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