cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/34303745
The last three months have not looked good for Bun. It started as one of the most impressive individual engineering projects I have seen, but has now turned into this weird AI-powered creature with continuous false promises and an increasingly frustrated community.
Jarred was already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs.
Oof, that explains everything
Homie probably went “Claude, rewrite this in rust” and left. Bit off too much. Dont listen to the AI companies, these things cannot be on their own.
Make no mistakes
From what I’ve seen from people that use AI, that would’ve been
Meak no mis teak!
Or similar. I swear, they can’t spell for shit.
The author described the process in Rewriting Bun in Rust. The tl;dr is it wasn’t as simple as prompting “rewrite this in Rust”, but the process was done entirely by a series of AI agents.
Absolute insanity. I wouldnt even do that with a project only intended for me to use.
Looks like Bun 1.4 is out now: https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4
Good news: Looks like Bun’s competitive with Deno again on node support.
Bad news: Bun still has poor security compared to Deno.
Wait and see news: Is bun’s switch to rust going to be worth it over the long haul, or should they have worked on making their code better, or used a mix of languages where it’d make best sense to do so?
Looking forward to the blog posts that test it
I am sure the project will be dead in a year
In the past month, 15.8k commits came from “robobun,” 1.6k commits from “autofix-ci[bot],” and 790 commits from Jarred.
No chance anybody is reviewing those. Worse, nobody else can reasonably inspect or review changes. I suspect even from release to release, you’re looking basically at a new codebase, the next release invalidating all your previous assessment, and release to release assessment to be impossible.
16/30 = 533 per day. I don’t know when 1.3 was, but even just the three month delay means 48k commits. Who knows how many changes per commit. Crazy numbers.
