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As expected [0] [1], this was a clear advertisement / marketing opportunity of Anthropic's Fable model on rewriting Bun (which powers Claude Code) from Zig into

• steveklabnik 4mo ago
  EDIT: the parent has effectively deleted their original comment > There are a lot of ways to do a terrible job of this. For example, prompting Claude "Rewrite Bun in Rust. Don't make any mistakes." and then praying it would work is not what I did.
  • rvz 4mo ago
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    • steveklabnik 4mo ago
      Hacker News does not have a meme-y culture, and this post takes this topic pretty seriously and is technically interesting. It's not so much that I missed that it was a joke, I just don't think that it really added to the discussion. What you've edited it to is a much better comment.
      • rvz 4mo ago
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        • QuaternionsBhop 4mo ago
          Jokes require mutual context. You failed to create a joke because you did not ensure the prerequisites were met.
          • rvz 4mo ago
            > Jokes require mutual context. The article itself is the context. Even the chatbots: ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini 'understand' the joke in the comment. Go ahead and ask them. > You failed to create a joke because you did not ensure the prerequisites were met. The prerequisites was for you to read the article first. The joke: "Now Claude, rewrite Claude Code from TypeScript to Rust. Make absolutely zero mistakes." You: ???
            • minimaxir 4mo ago
              As steveklabnik noted above, Hacker News does not have a meme-y culture. Just because you made a joke doesn't mean it's inherently immune to criticism, especially when using the lowest-effort, most-overdone meme around agentic development adds nothing to the discussion. Get new material.
              • rvz 4mo ago
                > As steveklabnik noted above, Hacker News does not have a meme-y culture. For this one, yes it does. Go search this one up yourself. [0] Literally everyone in the comments in [0] and even the author of this post acknowledges the joke except for you two. It. Is. A. Joke. Calm down. > Just because you made a joke doesn't mean it's inherently immune to criticism No one is arguing that. It's OK that you won't admit that you didn't get it either. > especially when using the lowest-effort, most-overdone meme around agentic development adds nothing to the discussion. Get new material. You're being over-dramatic. Why is that you can't take a simple joke? Surely you've never joked on this site before. [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22make%20no%20mistakes%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
                • simianwords 4mo ago
                  Its not even that, its one of the most overdone jokes as your link suggests.
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  • rvz 4mo ago
    > EDIT: the parent has effectively deleted their original comment Not really and we both know that is not true. The last line of the comment was the joke. [0] It is clear that you didn't get it and many others did. That is OK. Heavens forbid anyone here is allowed to make any jokes on this site. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839063
• merb 4mo ago
  1 Developer with a 200k budget for tools.