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iooiyesterday at 9:41 PM3 repliesview on HN

I don't get why Anthropic keeps saying how cool it is that they were able to rewrite bun in rust, I feel like if the model is really that good you wouldn't need a rewrite, you'd be able to create the runtime from scratch.


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chromakodeyesterday at 10:27 PM

Code is a fantastic way to capture requirements, particularly iterative product discoveries over time. It's much easier to start with a manifestation of the requirements (and tests of invariants) than starting from base principles.

__alexsyesterday at 9:52 PM

Productivity theatre is when activity becomes celebrated over outcomes. It's absolutely everywhere in US tech culture.

jdrossyesterday at 9:48 PM

I like this, it will be a really exciting benchmark to refer back to in a few years