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Isn’t just one guy?

by aurareturn 6mo ago

Isn’t just one guy?

Defletter 6mo ago
Exactly
- rvz 6mo ago
  This is exactly how Anthropic will market this rewrite towards companies thinking about doing more layoffs. 1 person did a rust rewrite that took 6 days that would have taken hundreds of engineers more than a year to do.
  - baq 6mo ago
    The saving grace here is a rewrite of a project with a good test suite is the sweet spot: LLMs are great at translation and do great with verifiable goals. I agree it’s still mind blowing compared to before times, though.
  - xienze 6mo ago
    > 1 person did a rust rewrite that took 6 days that would have taken hundreds of engineers more than a year to do. Even cheaper would just be to not do it in the first place. Was there a pressing need to rewrite it?
  - Dylan16807 6mo ago
    > would have taken hundreds of engineers more than a year This is estimating what, 10 lines per day each? No way translating code is anywhere near that slow.
  - Aurornis 6mo ago
    > 1 person did a rust rewrite that took 6 days that would have taken hundreds of engineers more than a year to do. The entire bun team was only about a dozen people and they wrote it from scratch. It would not take hundreds of engineers to port the existing codebase to another language. I think this is a cool experiment, but some of these claims are getting absurd.
  - 59nadir 6mo ago
    It probably wouldn't take a single person who knew what they were doing more than a year to re-implement Bun in basically anything, by hand and from scratch, i.e. not even looking at source. Writing the code for something you already understand and have built before is incredibly fast. I'm sure they'll market what you said, but it's so ridiculous that I would hope people would see through this stuff.
  - slopinthebag 6mo ago
    The majority of Bun was written by one guy in less than a year. In what world would a rewrite take hundreds of engineers more than a year to do? The hyperbole is getting ridiculous.
  - seanclayton 6mo ago
    And he has zero idea how it works. His capacity for understanding it is tied to his wallet now.
    - Kwpolska 6mo ago
      It's actually tied to his employment at Anthropic.

Isn’t just one guy?

Defletter 6mo ago

Exactly

rvz 6mo ago
This is exactly how Anthropic will market this rewrite towards companies thinking about doing more layoffs. 1 person did a rust rewrite that took 6 days that would have taken hundreds of engineers more than a year to do.
- baq 6mo ago
  The saving grace here is a rewrite of a project with a good test suite is the sweet spot: LLMs are great at translation and do great with verifiable goals. I agree it’s still mind blowing compared to before times, though.
- xienze 6mo ago
  > 1 person did a rust rewrite that took 6 days that would have taken hundreds of engineers more than a year to do. Even cheaper would just be to not do it in the first place. Was there a pressing need to rewrite it?
- Dylan16807 6mo ago
  > would have taken hundreds of engineers more than a year This is estimating what, 10 lines per day each? No way translating code is anywhere near that slow.
- Aurornis 6mo ago
  > 1 person did a rust rewrite that took 6 days that would have taken hundreds of engineers more than a year to do. The entire bun team was only about a dozen people and they wrote it from scratch. It would not take hundreds of engineers to port the existing codebase to another language. I think this is a cool experiment, but some of these claims are getting absurd.
- 59nadir 6mo ago
  It probably wouldn't take a single person who knew what they were doing more than a year to re-implement Bun in basically anything, by hand and from scratch, i.e. not even looking at source. Writing the code for something you already understand and have built before is incredibly fast. I'm sure they'll market what you said, but it's so ridiculous that I would hope people would see through this stuff.
- slopinthebag 6mo ago
  The majority of Bun was written by one guy in less than a year. In what world would a rewrite take hundreds of engineers more than a year to do? The hyperbole is getting ridiculous.
- seanclayton 6mo ago
  And he has zero idea how it works. His capacity for understanding it is tied to his wallet now.
  - Kwpolska 6mo ago
    It's actually tied to his employment at Anthropic.