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by simonw 3mo ago
This article could increase its credibility by being updated to acknowledge that Bun-on-Rust has been live in Claude Code itself since June 17th, and available as a canary release since it landed on main. Rewrites of this scale certainly ju
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by simonw 3mo ago
Here's the original story from 404 Media that this tweet is paraphrasing (without linking to, of course, because X disincentivizes links): https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-... The segment tha
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by simonw 3mo ago
Indeed. That's why I pointed out that OpenAI and Anthropic have entire own provides that serve the same purpose now.
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by simonw 3mo ago
OK, now do ACS_Solver, suzzer99, IshKebab, smrtinsert, and qarl2.
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by simonw 3mo ago
The QuickJS thing doesn't seem like a big deal to me, provided the documentation makes it clear that code will run slower if you use Any. If I was using this project for something I'd expect to write custom TypeScript for it. The
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by simonw 3mo ago
They won't have untyped dependencies for situations where someone used Scriptc as a way to build a fast binary executable for some custom-written TypeScript, which was the first use-case that came to mind for me. Being able to build sm
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by simonw 3mo ago
As far as I can tell they pull in QuickJS (actually quickjs-ng) only in the case where the program has untyped dependencies that still need to be run by an interpreter - and they chose that library because it's pretty small (620KB). Di
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by simonw 3mo ago
Looks like PRs are actively accepted. I just got rid of one of them! https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc/commit/c4b68dc6d9c259...
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by simonw 3mo ago
> so realistically you'd still need a JavaScript engine if you use any packages. Looks like Scriptc's solution to that problem is that it can optionally bundle a 620KB quickjs-ng JavaScript engine if you have dependencies that
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by simonw 3mo ago
> I'm more than a little suspicious of how Vercel has made so much progress so fast Coding agents. They landed 918,000 lines of code in a single week: https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc/graphs/cont
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by simonw 3mo ago
> I think a reasonable tradeoff, in theory, would be: use the LLM to help you explore the space of solution, then dive into the details and choose the path that feels right. Oh absolutely. One of my favorite prompting patterns is "s
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by simonw 3mo ago
OK, you won't except Linus. How about DHH, Max, Nolan, Steve, Mitchell, and those five HN commenters? Or to strengthen the case for Linus, here he is on June 16th 2926 saying: https://youtu.be/YKkEe-PxW10?t=1687 > w
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by simonw 3mo ago
I don't think you are arguing in good faith here. Max Woolf and DHH are clearly experienced developers who continue to write code for money. Linus too - 11 commits to the kernel today! https://github.com/torvalds/l
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by simonw 3mo ago
This is pretty fascinating! Here are the two open source proxies listed in the article: https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api and https://github.com/QuantumNous/new-api
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by simonw 3mo ago
Yeah, the top (only) comment on the linked thread says it well: > Even if information isn’t duplicated, this would centralize all information related to open source to this forum which would make it a single point of failure should it go
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by simonw 3mo ago
I wrote about this back in March 2023: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/llama/#use-this-for-go... > I think this is going to have a huge impact on society. My priority is trying to direct that im
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by simonw 3mo ago
It's a phrase for "the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of work." https://simonwilli
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by simonw 3mo ago
Paul Ford wrote a great piece about this in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/opinion/ai-software.html?... > November was, for me and many others in tech, a great surprise. Before, A.I.
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by simonw 3mo ago
I find this attitude baffling. Things are allowed to get better more than once! The idea that "yeah, you said technology had improved in the past, and now you're saying it has improved again" is a gotcha just seems incoherent
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by simonw 3mo ago
I don't get it. What point do you think those make? They read to me like an accurate report on the progress of these models and tools. In May 2025 Claude Code could help me debug a WordPress installation. In July 2025 I reported on som
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by simonw 3mo ago
Which of my blog entries contradict what I said here?
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by simonw 3mo ago
I'm optimistic that coding agents will not obsolete software developers - my own experience is that coding agents have made my work harder, because the scope of projects I can take on has increased. My ideal version of all of this is t
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by simonw 3mo ago
Aider was missing a key feature: automatically executing code. That write-execute-fix loop was the big unlock. I believe Aider avoided adding that for safety concerns. Claude Code demonstrated that throwing safety to the wing somehow kind o
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by simonw 3mo ago
Have you ever seen evidence of a productivity improvement that you have found convincing for any software tool , independent of LLMs? What shape did that evidence take?
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by simonw 3mo ago
Software engineering is about tradeoffs. The single most important tradeoff is always time: this feature would be better if I did X, but doing X would take me Y hours, is it worth the time or should I spend that time on something else? No
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by simonw 3mo ago
GPT-5.3 is a last-generation model (which is wild to say when it came out in February this year, but it's true). How does GPT-5.6 Sol or Claude Fable 5 or Claude Opus 5 do on that Cinema 4D code?
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by simonw 3mo ago
I misinterpreted it as a final decision when I first skimmed the page. The title of the linked document is "Resolution: LLM usage in Debian" and it's not obvious that it's several competing proposals until you explore th
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by simonw 3mo ago
One of the goals of my blog is to help CEOs who read it not make stupid decisions. I aim to be a counter to the breathless LinkedIn hype they are exposed to everywhere else.
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by simonw 3mo ago
They're talking about the software that is unique to Debian, like their lintian tool. https://wiki.debian.org/Lintian
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by simonw 3mo ago
What the heck would I be "stealth-marketing" here? It's genuine concern. I do not want to live in a dystopia where AI results in mass unemployment. That would suck, even for the people who manage to stay employed.

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