[shimman]

1. Get hired into a company where you have a solid bet on making multi-century lasting generational wealth (>$50,000,000).

2. Every waking moment do everything in your power to boost the company that might give you the ability to define the direction of technology for the rest of your life.

3. Use the only thing you have (bun) to help push you in this direction and do things to help boost LLM marketing (a technology that already deeply struggles to find customers and has to rely on welfare (lucrative government contracts) to make sales).

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Honestly think this generation of tech workers in SF are more evil than those that worked at Google + Facebook in the early 10s.

[oskarkk]

> a technology that already deeply struggles to find customers

As far as I know it's the opposite, Anthropic struggles to satisfy demand, they have tons of paying customers and their customer base is growing fast.

[shimman]

Wow as far as you know? That settles it then! Just ignore this:

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/wheres-ed-anthropic-told-court...

[oskarkk]

So, your link shows that they probably have like $1 billion in sales per month (but they publicly overstated this by 30%), and that's the struggle to find customers?

There are tons of posts and reporting about Anthropic's problems with meeting demand, usage limits (on paid plans, especially during peak hours), fast growth (your link confirms that), and problems with infrastructure.

Some links:

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/anthropic-throttles-claude...

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/anthropics-claude-populari...

[msdz]

So the takeaway here is that they scaled to just over $5bn instead of $6.6bn in revenue in just a few years…? Still sounds like plenty demand exists?

[_aavaa_]

What does that have to do with rewriting from zig to rust??? This thread is what's pushing LLM marketing, not the rewrite itself.

If the rewrite is just a stunt and it will crash and burn it will do that whether we spend our free (or work) time writing comments. If there is any hype around this particular topic, it's happening here not in the GitHub repo.

[bmitc]

This is exactly the case here.

The author of Bun is a Thiel Fellow, so he's already been trained in The Way.

People are trying to wash away the recklessness of this rewrite by applying engineering principles the author their self didn't apply. It's like trying to make sense of a certain president's words. There is a lot of missing analysis both before this rewrite, during it, and after that is missing. And given that Zig and Rust can interoperate with each other via C, it makes a wholesale rewrite even more bizarre.

[ukblewis]

I’m honestly confused. What is it that you think makes these workers “more evil” than Google and Facebook workers from the early 2010s?

[wiseowise]

Google and Facebook workers just made a lot of cash and mostly made everyone's life harder by Leetcode and bad interview process, they didn't threaten and actively work to put millions of SE on the street.

[tredre3]

> they didn't threaten and actively work to put millions of SE on the street

Programmers in the 90s weren't less evil or had a stronger moral compass. They simply didn't have the opportunity to reduce the need for their fellow developers on a massive scale. They (we) would have, had we had the chance.

They (we) did it to tons of other industries. And we collectively patted ourselves on the back, saying that automation is a good thing and we're the good guys for doing it and people who lost their jobs will adapt and maybe they should just learn to code.

Now it's happening to (some of) us and suddenly it's evil?

No. The point is: programmers are whores. We like to act all righteous on forums, but very very few of us care enough about the consequences of our code to do something about it.

We either don't think about it ("what could go wrong?"), don't care about it (eh), justify it ("I need to eat!!!", "I'm just following orders"), or actively embrace it ("It's the future!").

[pessimizer]

> Programmers in the 90s weren't less evil or had a stronger moral compass. They simply didn't have the opportunity to reduce the need for their fellow developers on a massive scale. They (we) would have, had we had the chance.

Nah. The fact that such opportunity wasn't available attracted a different sort of person.

[zzzoom]

And definitely not more evil than the workers at current Meta.