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Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’ (www.theregister.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to c/programming@programming.dev

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*The Rustification of Bun#

Rewriting 500,000 lines of Zig into another language would be a gargantuan undertaking if done by hand. “A rewrite in another language would take a small team of engineers a full year. It would mean freezing bugfixes, security fixes or feature development for that time,” Sumner wrote.

Instead, Sumner went with Claude. He spun up about 50 dynamic Claude Code workflows, reaching a peak of about 1,300 lines of code per minute and generating over a million lines of Rust code. The job took 11 days and cost about $165,000 at API pricing. Claude Fable did most of the heavy lifting.

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[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No, AI psychosis has done so much damage to open source and software engineering as whole already, the professional thing to do is to start to call it out for what it is. And sometimes that means intentionally making people mad, like that project that instructed the AI to put self-disparaging remarks into the author's PR to both mock the author and make it obvious they used AI. He may not be the hero we deserve, but he's the hero we need right now.

Maybe you do get more flies with honey than with vinegar, but vinegar is useful too. Fuck AI (at least in many of the forms it is currently being used and pushed in)

[–] FishFace@piefed.social -4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If it's doing "so much damage" - let them crash and burn. That's all the vinegar you need.

It's different when it's people coming and fucking up your project and breaking your rules - then they deserve to be dealt with robustly. But if all they're doing is fucking up their own product then being a wretched little gossip doesn't help anyone.

[–] ugo@feddit.it 3 points 4 hours ago

Some of the ways in which bun came fucking up zig’s ecosystem can be found in Andrew’s own blog post.