[simonw]

> If their AI finished it, where's the release?

Producing a stable release for their community of code that had been written by AI in 11 days and had not yet been extensively tested in the real world would be grossly irresponsible.

Instead, they made the AI rewrite available as a canary release and shipped it for a month as part of Claude Code to millions of their own users.

[throwatdem12311]

Can’t tell if this is supposed to be serious or a sarcastic quip about how irresponsible that move actually was.

[nvme0n1p1]

So... not finished, then? There have been lots of commits between then and now.

If I pay someone to build a house and they left me a voicemail saying "Yep the house is finished, it only took us 11 days!" And then later, "No, you can't move in yet, still fixing some last-minute issues (there's no plumbing yet)." We would classify this as: a lie. And if you told it to your investors: fraud.

Would it really be so bad for Anthropic to admit that a project of this size takes months instead of weeks?

I'm not saying AI is not capable of this. I'm saying that their dishonest marketing has given ammo to their haters.

[simonw]

> Would it really be so bad for Anthropic to admit that a project of this size takes months instead of weeks?

I think that's exactly what they've done by not shipping a stable release yet.

I don't think they've been pushing that "It only took us 11 days!" message nearly as hard as their critics suggest that they have.

[whilenot-dev]

> I don't think they've been pushing that "It only took us 11 days!" message nearly as hard as their critics suggest that they have.

I have to disagree here. From their blog post Rewriting Bun in Rust[0]:

> This Rust rewrite would've taken a team of engineers with full-context on the codebase a year of work. With 1 engineer using Fable & closely monitoring Claude Code, we went from start to 100% of the test suite passing on all platforms in 11 days. One engineer can do a lot more today than a year ago.

[0]: https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust#what-s-next

[theshrike79]

Mentioning it once in a blog isn't "pushing it". It's not like they went on a podcast interview spree touting how they did it in only 11 days.

[willdr]

The eleven day figure features in multiple animated infographics in Jarred's blog post; https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust, including a calendar that shows commits over 11 days.

> I rewrote Bun in Rust using about 50 dynamic workflows in Claude Code run continuously over the course of 11 days.