https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
They discussed how running generated code is better for context management in many cases. The AI can generate code to retrieve, process, and filter the data it needs rather than doing it in-context, thus reducing context needs. Furthermore, if you can run the code right next to the server where the data is, it's all that much faster.
I see Bun like a Skynet: if it can run anywhere, the AI can run anywhere.
Cloudflare Workers had Kenton Varda, who had been looking at lightweight serverless architecture at Sandstorm years ago. Anthropic needs this too, for all the reasons above. Makes all the sense in the world.
I'm not sure I understand why it's necessary to even couple this to a runtime, let alone own the runtime?
Can't you just do it as a library and train/instruct the LLM to prefer using that library?
The acquisition makes more sense. A few observations:
- no acquisition amount was announced. That indicates some kind of share swap where the investors change shares for one company into another. Presumably the founder now has some shares in Anthropic and a nice salary and vesting structure that will keep him on board for a while.
- The main investor was Kleiner Perkins. They are also an investor in Anthropic. 100M in the last round, apparently.
Everything else is a loosely buzzword compatible thingy for Anthropic's AI coding thingy and some fresh talent for their team. All good. But it's beside the point. This was an investor bailout. They put in quite a bit of money in Bun with exactly 0 remaining chance of that turning into the next unicorn. Whatever flaky plan there once might have been for revenue that caused them to invest, clearly wasn't happening. So, they liquidated their investment through an acquihire via one of their other investments.
Kind of shocking how easy it was to raise that kind of money with essentially no plan whatsoever for revenue. Where I live (Berlin), you get laughed away by investors (in a quite smug way typically) unless you have a solid plan for making them money. This wouldn't survive initial contact with due diligence. Apparently money still grows on trees in Silicon Valley.
I like Bun and have used it but from where I'm sitting there was no unicorn lurking there, ever.
> Our default answer was always some version of "we'll eventually build a cloud hosting product.", vertically integrated with Bun’s runtime & bundler.
ChatGPT is feeling the pressure of Gemini [0]. So it's a bit strange for Anthropic to be focusing hard on its javascript game. Perhaps they see that as part of their advantage right now.
[0] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/goo...
100%. even more robust if paired with an overlay network which provides identity based s3 access (rather than ip address/network based). else server may not have access to s3/cloud resource, at least for many enterprises with s3 behind vpn/direct connect.
ditto for cases when want agent/client side to hit s3 directly, bypassing the server, and agent/client may not have permitted IP in FW ACL, or be on vpn/wan.
I mean would it have made sense to acquire golang if it were on sale?
At present the browser monstrosity is used to (automatically, indiscriminantly) download into memory and run Javascripts from around the web. At least with a commandline web-capable JS runtime monstrosity the user could in theory exercise more control over what scripts are downloaded and if and when to run them. Perhaps more user control over permissions to access system resources as well (cf. corporate control)
1. One can already see an approach something like this being used in the case of
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/EJS
where a commandline JS runtime is used without the need for any graphics layer (advertising display layer)
I believe this completely. They didn't have to join, which means they got a solid valuation.
> Instead of putting our users & community through "Bun, the VC-backed startups tries to figure out monetization" – thanks to Anthropic, we can skip that chapter entirely and focus on building the best JavaScript tooling.
I believe this a bit less. It'll be nice to not have some weird monetization shoved into bun, but their focus will likely shift a bit.
Did they? I see a $7MM seed round in 2022. Now to be clear that's a great seed round and it looks like they had plenty of traction. But it's unclear to me how they were going to monetize enough to justify their $7MM investment. If they continued with the consultancy model, they would need to pay back investors from contracts they negotiate with other companies, but this is a fraught way to get early cashflow going.
Though if I'm not mistaken, Confluent did the same thing?
> They didn't have to join, which means they got a solid valuation.
I don't really know any details about this acquisition, and I assume it's the former, but acquihires are also done for other reasons than "it was the only way".
They weren’t acquired and got paid just to build tooling as before and now completely ignoring monetization until the end of times.
I'm a user of Bun and an Anthropic customer. Claude Code is great and it's definitely where their models shine. Outside of that Anthropic sucks,their apps and web are complete crap, borderline unusable and the models are just meh. I get it, CC's head got probably a powerplay here given his department is towing the company and his secret sauce, according to marketing from Oven, was Bun. In fact VSCode's claude backend is distributed in bun-compiled binary exe, and the guy is featured on the front page of the Bun website since at least a week or so. So they bought the kid the toy he asked for.
Anthropic needs urgently, instead, to acquire a good team behind a good chatbot and make something minimally decent. Then make their models work for everything else as well as they do with code.
> Almost five years ago, I was building a Minecraft-y voxel game in the browser. The codebase got kind of large, and the iteration cycle time took 45 seconds to test if changes worked. Most of that time was spent waiting for the Next.js dev server to hot reload.
Why in the hell would anyone be using Next.js to make a 3D game... Jarred has always seemed pretty smart, but this makes no sense. He could've saved so much time and avoided building a whole new runtime by simply not using the completely wrong tool for the job.
True, but where is the fun in that?
Happy to answer any questions
I would have thought LLM-generated code would run a bit counter to both of those. I had sort of carved the world into "vibe coders" who care about the eventual product but don't care so much about the "craft" of code, and people who get joy out of the actual process of coding and designing beautiful abstractions and data structures and all that, which I didn't really think worked with LLM code.
But I guess not, and this definitely causes me to update my understanding of what LLM-generated code can look like (in my day to day, I mostly see what I would consider as not very good code when it comes from an LLM).
Would you say your usage of Claude Code was more "around the edges", doing things like writing tests and documentation and such? Or did it actually help in real, crunchy problems in the depths of low level Zig code?
Do you think Anthropic might request you implement private APIs?
Is there anything I could do to improve this PR/get a review? I understand you are def very busy right now with the acquisition, but wanted to give my PR the best shot:
If the answer is performance, how does Bun achieve things quicker than Node?
I contributed to Bun one time for SQLite. I've a question about the licensing. Will each contributor continue to retain their copyright, or will a CLA be introduced?
Thanks
I know that one thing you guys are working on or are at least aware of is the size of single-file executables. From a technical perspective, is there a path forward on this?
I'm not familiar with Bun's internals, but in order to get the size down, it seems like you'd have to somehow split up/modularize Bun itself and potentially JavaScriptCore as well (not sure how big the latter is). That way only the things that are actually being used by the bundled code are included in the executable.
Is this even possible? Is the difficulty on the Bun/Zig side of things, or JSC, or something else? Seems like a very interesting (and very difficult) technical problem.
asking the real questions
Congratulations.
> Bun will ship faster.
That'll last until FY 2027. This is an old lie that acquirers encourage the old owner to say because they have no power to enforce it, and they didn't actually say it so they're not on the hook. It's practically a cheesy pickup line, and given the context, it kinda is.
Huh, this feels very odd to read and buying a company outright is definitely not the only way to push Bun to be excellent. Contributing to Bun from their developers, becoming a sponsor, donating through other means, buying 'consulting services' or similar, or even forking it and keeping it up to date would all be also steps towards keeping the Bun excellent.
This is vendoring a dependency on steroids, and first moment interests of community are not aligned with what Antropic needs, it will be interesting to see how this unfolds. History has thought us that this will end up with claims in the blog post not holding much weight.
Very direct, very plain and detailed. They cover all the bases about the why, the how, and what to expect. I really appreciate it.
Best of luck to the team and hopefully the new home will support them well.
How long before we hear about “Our Amazing Journey”?
On the other hand, I would rather see someone like Bun have a successful exit where the founders seem to have started out with a passion project, got funding, built something out they were excited about and then exit than yet another AI company by non technical founders who were built with the sole purpose of getting funding and then exit.
If Bun embraces the sweet spot around edge computing, modern JS/TS and AI services, I think their future ahead looks bright.
Bun seems more alive than Deno, FWIW.
Will this make it more or less likely for people to use Bun vs Deno?
And now that Bun doesn't need to run a profitable cloud company will they move faster and get ahead of Deno?
People who like Bun for what it is are probably still going to, and same goes for Deno.
That being said I don't see how Anthropic is really adding long term stability to Bun.
I started out with Deno and when I discovered Bun, I pivoted. Personally I don't need the NodeJS/NPM compatability. Wish there was a Bun-lite which was freed of the backward compatability.
I'm not sure it will make much of a difference in the short term.
For those who were drawn to Bun by hype and/or some concerns around speed, they will continue to use Bun.
For me personally, I will continue to use Node for legacy projects and will continue using Deno for current projects.
I'm not interested in Bun for it's hype (since hype is fleeting). I have a reserved interested in Bun's approach to speed but I don't see it being a significant factor since most JS speed concerns come from downloading dependencies (which is a once-off operation) and terrible JS framework practices (which aren't resolved by changing engines anyway).
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The two largest problems I see in JS are:
1. Terrible security practices
2. A lack of a standard library which pushes people into dependency hell
Deno fixes both of those problems with a proper permission model and a standard library.
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> And now that Bun doesn't need to run a profitable cloud company will they move faster and get ahead of Deno?
I think any predictions between 1-10 years are going to be a little too chaotic. It all depends on how the AI bubble goes away.
But after 10 years, I can see runtimes switching from their current engines to one based on Boa, Kiesel or something similar.
It fades away as a direct to developer tool.
This is a good thing for Deno.
Elaborate? I believe Zig's donors don't get any influence and decision making power.
I'll admit I'm somewhat biased against Bun, but I'm honestly interested in knowing why people prefer Bun over Deno.
Even with a cold cache, `bun install` with a large-ish dependency graph is significantly faster than `npm install` in my experience.
I don't know if Deno does that, but some googling for "deno install performance vs npm install" doesn't turn up much, so I suspect not?
As a runtime, though, I have no opinion. I did test it against Node, but for my use case (build tooling for web projects) it didn't make a noticeable difference, so I decided to stick with Node.
Despite the page title being "Fullstack dev server", it's also useful in production (Ctrl-F "Production Mode").
I don't know how Deno is today. I switched to Bun and porting went a lot smoother.
Philosophically, I like that Bun sees Node compatibility as an obvious top priority. Deno sees it as a grudging necessity after losing the fight to do things differently.
JSC is still the JS engine for WebKit-based browsers, especially Safari, and per Apple App Store regulations the only JS engine supposedly allowable in all of iOS.
It's more "mature" than V8 in terms of predating it. (V8 was not a fork of it and was started from scratch, but V8 was designed to replace it in the Blink fork from WebKit.)
It has different performance goals and performance characteristics, but "less tested" seems uncharitable and it is certainly used in plenty of "real-world tasks" daily in iOS and macOS.
The nice things:
1. It's fast.
2. The standard library is great. (This may be less of an advantage over Deno.)
3. There's a ton of momentum behind it.
4. It's closer to Node.js than Deno is, at least last I tried. There were a bunch of little Node <> Deno papercuts. For example, Deno wanted .ts extensions on all imports.
5. I don't have to think about JSR.
The warts:
1. The package manager has some issues that make it hard for us to use. I've forgotten why now, but this in particular bit us in the ass: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/6608. We use PNPM and are very happy with it, even if it's not as fast as Bun's package manager.
Overall, Deno felt to me like they were building a parallel ecosystem that I don't have a ton of conviction in, while Bun feels focused on meeting me where I am.
There's certainly an argument to be made that, like any good tool, you have to learn Deno and can't fall back on just reusing node knowledge, and I'd absolutely agree with that, but in that case I wanted to learn the package, not the package manager.
Edit: Also it has a nice standard library, not a huge win because that stuff is also doable in Deno, but again, its just a bit less painless
It's not clear to me why that requires creating a whole new runtime, or why they made the decisions they did, like choosing JSC instead of V8, or using a pre-1.0 language like Zig.
I haven't had that experience with deno (or node)
It feels like a very unfocused project, every few months they introduce a new feature that is to replace an entire class of tools, while the original promise of "drop in Node replacement" was never fulfilled (or at least, that was the vibe for the past years when I was still paying attention).
We'll see how this works out but speed + lack of scope never works out well in the long term.
Bun is fast, and its worked as a drop in replacement for npm in large legacy projects too.
I only ever encountered one issue, which was pretty dumb, Amazon's CDK has hardcoded references to various package manager's lock files, and Bun wasn't one of them
https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/31753
This wasn't fixed till the end of 2024 and as you can see, only accidentally merged in but tolerated. It was promptly broken by a bun breaking change
https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/33464
but don't let Amazon's own incompetency be the confirmation bias you were looking for about using a different package manager in production
you can use SST to deploy cloud resources on AWS and any cloud, and that package works with bun
1. https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state... 2. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3...
Node.js is a no-brainer for anyone shipping a TS/JS backend. I'd rather deal with poor DX and slightly worse performance than risk fighting runtime related issues on deployment.
Linux needs to be a first class citizen for any runtime/langauge toolchain.
I used bun briefly to run the output of my compiler, because it was the only javascript runtime that did tail calls. But I eventually added a tail call transform to my compiler and switched to node, which runs 40% faster for my test case (the compiler building itself).
The tools that the language offers to handle use after free is hardly any different from using Purify, Insure++ back in 2000.
Why? Genuine question, sorry if it was said/implied in your original message and I missed it.
Deno seems like the better replacement for Node, but it'd still be at risk of NPM supply chain attacks which seems to be the greater concern for companies these days.
For deploy, usually running the attached terraform script takes more time.
So while a speed increase is welcome, but I don't feel it gives me such a boost.
Telling prospective employees that if you're not ready to work 60-hour weeks, then what the fuck are you doing here? for one.
> Zig does force some safety with ReleaseSafe IIRC
which Bun doesn't use, choosing to go with `ReleaseFast` instead.
Investors must be happy because Bun never had to find out how to become profitable.
except this sense:
> Investors must be happy because Bun never had to find out how to become profitable.
How would the payout split work? It wouldn’t seem fair to the investors if the founder profited X million while the investors get their original money returned. I understand VC has the expectation that 99 out of 100 of investments will net them no money. But what happens in the cases where money is made, it just isn’t profitable for the VC firm.
What’s to stop everyone from doing this? Besides integrity, why shouldn’t every founder just cash out when the payout is life-changing?
Is there usually some clause in the agreements like “if you do not return X% profit, the founder forfeits his or her equity back to the shareholders”?
Additionally, depending on round, they also have multiples, like 2x meaning they get at least 2x their investment before anyone else gets anything
Maybe an easier first step would be to open source Claude Code...?
In the article they write about the early days
We raised a $7 million seed round
If your userbase or the current CEO likes it or not.
It's basically the Jevons paradox for code. The price of lines of code (in human engineer-hours) has decreased a lot, so there is a bunch of code that is now economically justifiable which wouldn't have been written before. For example, I can prompt several ad-hoc benchmarking scripts in 1-2 minutes to troubleshoot an issue which might have taken 10-20 minutes each by myself, allowing me to investigate many performance angles. Not everything gets committed to source control.
Put another way, at least in my workflow and at my workplace, the volume of code has increased, and most of that increase comes from new code that would not have been written if not for AI, and a smaller portion is code that I would have written before AI but now let the AI write so I can focus on harder tasks. Of course, it's uneven penetration, AI helps more with tasks that are well-described in the training set (webapps, data science, Linux admin...) compared to e.g. issues arising from quirky internal architecture, Rust, etc.
> .... and in 12 months, we might be in a world where the ai is writing essentially all of the code. But the programmer still needs to specify what are the conditions of what you're doing. What is the overall design decision. How we collaborate with other code that has been written. How do we have some common sense with whether this is a secure design or an insecure design. So as long as there are these small pieces that a programmer has to do, then I think human productivity will actually be enhanced
(He then said it would continue improving, but this was not in the 12 month prediction.)
Source interview: https://www.youtube.com/live/esCSpbDPJik?si=kYt9oSD5bZxNE-Mn
Another option is that this was an equity deal where Bun shareholders believe there is still a large multiple worth up potential upside in the current Anthropic valuation.
Plus many other scenarios.
On the opposite spectrum it's just that Claude and Bun are great technologies that joined forces.
Programming languages all are a balance between performance/etc and making it easy for a human to interact with. This balance is going to shit as AI writes more code (and I assume Anthropic wants a future where humans might not even see the code, but rather an abstraction of it... after all, all code we look at is an abstraction on some level).
Claude Code is a 1B+ cash machine and Anthropic directly uses Bun for it.
Acquiring Bun lowers the risk of the software being unmaintained as Bun made $0 and relied on VC money.
Makes sense, but this is just another day in San Francisco of a $0 revenue startup being bought out.
I did end up fixing Node.js compatibility later but it was extra work. Felt like they just created busy-work. Node.js maintainers should stop deprecating perfectly good features and complicating their modules.
That perspective following “in two-three years” makes me shudder, honestly.
- Anthropic can't write its TUI app in anything else more suitable than Javascript
- They feel the need to buy a portion of their software supply chain
Why not something like c#: native, fast, crossplatform, strongly-typed, great tooling, supports both scripting (ie single file-based) and compiled to a binary with no dependency whatsoever (nativeAOT), great errors and error stacks, list goes on.
All great for AI to recover during its iterations of generating something useful.
Genuinely perplexed.
I dislike it also..
Might also be a context window thing. Idk how much boilerplate C# has, but others like Java spam it.
This is promising for Astral et al who I really like but worried about their sustainability. It does point to being as close to the user as possible mattering.
So many of the issues with it seem to be because ... they wrote the damn thing in JavaScript?
Claude is pretty good at a constrained task with tests -- couldn't you just port it to a different language? With Claude?
And then just ... the huge claude.json which gets written on every message, like ... SQLite exists! Please, please use it! The scrollback! The Keyboard handling! Just write a simple Rust or Go or whatever CLI app with an actual database and reasonable TUI toolkit? Why double down and buy a whole JavaScript runtime?
And if you're expressing hierarchical UI, the best way to do it is HTML and CSS. It has the richest ecosystem, and it is one of the most mature technologies in existence. JS / TS are the native languages for those tools. Everything is informed by this.
Of course, there are other options. You could jam HTML and CSS into (as you mention) Rust, or C, or whatever. But then the ecosystem is extremely lacking, and you're reinventing the wheel. You could use something simpler, like QML or handrolled. But then you lose the aforementioned breadth of features and compatibilities with all the browser code ever written.
TypeScript is genuinely, for my money, the best option. The big problem is that the terminal backends aren't mature (as you said, scrollback, etc). But, given time and money, that'll get sorted out. It's much easier to fix the terminal stuff than to rewrite all of the browser.
Rust, Go, whatever -- writing a good TUI isn't that hard of a problem. Buying an entire VC funded JS runtime company isn't how you solve it.
Stay in distribution and in the wave as much as possible.
Good devex is all you need. Claude code team iterates and ships fast, and these decisions make total sense when you realize that dev velocity is the point.
moreover, now they can make investments in order to make it an an even more efficient and secure runtime for model workspaces.
IOW look where the puck is going.
I guess we should wait for some opt-out telemetry some time soon. It'll be nothing too crazy at first, but we'll see how hungry they are for the data.
Except Node's author already wrote its replacement: Deno.
At the very least there must be some part of the agent tasks that can be run in JS, such as REST APIs, fetching web results, parsing CSV into a table, etc.
[1] https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/#strict-no-llm-no-ai-pol...
This just isn't the hard part of the product.
Like if I was building a Claude Code competitor and I acquired bun, I wouldn't feel like I had an advantage because I could get more support with like fs.read?
> Being part of Anthropic gives Bun: Long-term stability.
Let's see. I don't want to always be the downer but the AI industry is in a state of rapid flux with some very strong economic headwinds. I wouldn't confidently say that hitching your wagon to AI gives you long term stability. But as long as the rest of us keep the ability to fork an open source project I won't complain too much.
(for those who are disappointed: this is why you stick with Node. Deno and Bun are both VC funded projects, there's only one way that goes. The only question is timeline)
Agentic systems are no longer just model-driven — they are increasingly runtime-driven through tools, sandboxes, and orchestration layers. When agents are writing code, executing tests, calling external tools, and validating outcomes, the reliability of the entire system becomes a function of the runtime and environment, not just the model.
Controlling the runtime gives Anthropic vertical control across:
- Packaging and distribution - Execution semantics - Performance characteristics - Security surface area - Operational stability
Of course, owning a JavaScript runtime does not magically make runtime deterministic. The dominant sources of variability still sit lower in the stack: OS behaviour, native dependencies, filesystem semantics, scheduling, hardware differences, and network effects. Runtime ownership is necessary, but not sufficient, for true runtime determinism.
What this does signal is a strategic shift in where value is being captured.
Model capability is no longer the only critical layer.
The execution plane is becoming just as strategic too, can see this in ChatGPT 5’s dynamic model routing capability as well as ecosystem wide Tool Calling and MCP adoption, which are all aimed at increasing LLM determinism through traditional software stacks.
Vertical integration here looks far less like a tooling move and far more like a control-plane strategy: consolidate the stack, reduce dependency entropy, and shrink the surface area where behaviour can diverge.
Intelligence may live in the model, but reliability, scalability, and trust are increasingly properties of the system that executes it.
How was Go involved there before Zig?
> 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.
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
Feels like maybe AI companies are starting to feel the questions on their capital spending? They wanna show that this is a responsible acquisition.
Put the Bun folks directly on that please and nothing else.
Congrats to Jarred and the team!
Acquisition seems like a large overhead and maybe a slight pivot to me.
Using bun on a side project reinvigorated my love of software development during a relatively dark time in my life, and part of me wonders if I would have taken the leap onto my current path if it weren't for the joy and feeling of speed that came from working with bun!
And apparently the submission's source for being the only org I can tell that anticipated this: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-advanced-t...
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/24578
So far, someone from the bun team has left a bunch of comments like
> Poor quality code
...and all the tests still seem to be failing. I looked through the code that the bot had generated and to me (who to be fair is not familiar with the bun codebase) it looks like total dogshit.
But hey, maybe it'll get there eventually. I don't envy "taylordotfish" and the other bot-herders working at Oven though, and I hope they get a nice payout as part of this sale.
This will make sure Bun is around for many, many, years to come. Thanks Anthropic.
Why Bun?
Easy to setup and go. bun run <something.ts>
Bells and whistles. (SQL, Router, SPA, JSX, Bundling, Binaries, Streams, Sockets, S3)
Typescript Supported. (No need to tsc, bun can transpile for you)
Binary builds. (single executables for easy deployment)
Full Node.js Support. (The whole API)
Full NPM Support. (All the packages)
Native modules. (90% and getting better thanks to Zig's interop)
S3 File / SQL Builtin. (Blazingly Fast!)
You should try it. Yes, others do these things too, but we're talking about Bun.
(1) Bun is what technical startups should be. Consistently excellent decisions, hyper focused on user experience, and a truly excellent technical product.
(2) We live in a world where TUIs are causing billion dollar acquisitions. Think about that. Obviously, Bun itself is largely orthogonal to the TUIs. Just another use case. But also obviously, they wouldn't have been acquired like this without this use case.
(3) There's been questions of whether startups like Bun can exist. How will they make money? When will they have to sell out one of the three principles in (1) to do so? The answer seems to be that they don't; at least, not like we expected, and in my opinion not in a sinister way.
A sinister or corrupting sell out would be e.g. like Conan. What started as an excellent tool became a bloated, versioned mess as they were forced to implement features to support the corporate customers that sustained them.
This feels different. Of course, there will be some selling out. But largely the interests of Anthropic seem aligned with "build the best JS runtime", since Anthropic themselves must be laser focused on user experience with Claude Code. And just look at Opencode [^1] if you want to see what leaning all the way into Bun gets you. Single file binary distribution, absurdly fast, gorgeous. Their backend, OpenTUI [^2], is a large part of this, and was built in close correspondence with the Bun folks. It's not something that could exist without Bun, in my opinion.
(4) Anthropic could have certainly let Bun be a third party to which they contributed. They did not have to purchase them. But they did. There is a strange not-quite altruism in this; at worst, a casting off of the exploitation of open source we often see from the biggest companies. Things change; what seems almost altruistic now could be revealed to be sinister, or could morph into such. But for now, at least, it feels good and right.
[^1]: https://github.com/sst/opencode [^2]: https://github.com/sst/opentui
To some degree have “opinionated views on tech stacks” is unavoidable in LLMs, but this seems like it moves us towards a horrible future.
Imagine if claude (or gemini) let you as a business pay to “prefer” certain tech in generated code?
Its google ads all over again.
The thing is, if they own bun, and they want people to use bun, how can they justify not preferencing it on the server side?
…and once one team does it… game on!
It just seems like a sucky future, that is now going to be unavoidable.
Or perhaps they have in their agreement that Anthropic's own rules don't apply to them?
Serious question, in all this madness
and when this bubble pops down goes bun
What? Oh, lots of slop code?
[1] www.bunn.com
Why?
Regards.
> We’re hiring engineers.
Careers page:
> Sorry, no job openings at the moment.
/s
It’s wild what happens when a generation of programmers doesn’t know anything except webdev. How far from grace we have fallen.