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by veidr 23 days ago
No, he's stated the opposite, e.g. https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2058283214981251080?s=46

But AFAICT he's never suggested they reviewed all the code, and that they didn't seems like a pretty safe assumption given the volume, and timeline.

I personally think the test suite passing counts for something, and I would bet they also set up some pretty intense LLM-powered verification loops and quality gates (which I hope the forthcoming blog post will detail). I've seen mechanical LLM ports that went extremely well (though nowhere near this scale, so we could review the code (which is how I know they went well)).

I think the most hysterical reactions that we are seeing from some people are premature, knee-jerk responses. We're gonna _find out_ if the Rust version really is better than Zig version, and soon.

And even if it is better overall, I think if there is an AI-slop-induced major bug we are definitely gonna know that, too, because we have a highly motivated community of folks ready to tweet the shit out of it the instant it is found.

So even as a pretty heavy daily user of Bun, I'm actually really glad they did this. The value of the public experiment is high, and if new Bun sucks, well, I still have Deno.