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so when will xAI default on its debt?

It is an indisputable fact that Anthropic made money on models trained on those pirated books.

This is a settlement that the authors and Anthropic agreed upon.

The authors or the publishers?

I have a hard time believing they agreed with the millions of authors they pirated.

This is not even than a slap on the wrist. Publishers who negotiated this really fucked up writers.

According to US federal law, pirating a single copyrighted work and gaining commercial advantage of it (which Anthropic 100% did) represents five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. But it gets worse:

"Penalties for a copyright infringement conviction may increase if the defendant has previous similar convictions, made more than 10 copies of copyrighted works, committed copyright infringement during a period longer than 180 days, or infringed copyrighted material worth more than $2,500."

https://www.justia.com/entertainment-law/piracy-in-the-enter...

why would anybody invest all that time to understand and maintain a mess (according to the creator of zig) of 500k lines of zig code?

Still not 100% there but yeah in 5-10 years it wouldn't surprise me if Linux becomes the dominant desktop gaming platform.

You mean except the bugs in the zig version and any future CVEs?

This is the exact reason I stopped using Bun for new projects.

Terrible project governance.

TS 7 is a good example of what a responsible team that cares about their users should have done.

Gaming

Is there a way to try it without using your Google account or giving them your phone number?

what else can you expect from these sort of companies

Screens don't count?

Without new models how would AI companies compete then?

Other features can easily be copied (eg Claude Code, ChatGPT, etc).

If AI services are a commodity then they can only compete on price.

I've been using Photoshop since CS1 (was a Corel user before that).

Photoshop and Illustrator CS6 were the last good versions. Very snappy and with probably 99% of the features I use today. Everything slowly degraded when they moved to the subscription model which I've been paying since 2013.

Apple Silicon support was really bad for a couple of years (tons of GPU issues in Illustrator) but I will admit it's better now.

The worst offender is Creative Cloud. I remember their Sync crap couldn't even be removed from Finder at one point. Even today whenever you use an Adobe app a dozen processes will spawn in your computer and remain there even if you disallow any background stuff in macOS.

Inference is probably the cheapest part of it all.

The buildings will last for years, decades even, but the GPUs need to be replaced every 2-3 years in perpetuity.

Are Bun users happy with this?

I've gone back to Node.

There was a poll on r/bun with about 2000 votes and only about 30% of users voting they were going to use the Rust version. Can't seem to find it now.

Edit:

The poll was deleted

https://www.reddit.com/r/bun/comments/1u3j4d7/are_you_going_...

People who protest in Russia tend to have fatal accidents.

This 100%

Now, suddenly, it’s completely normal to have to pay $100 or $200 per month in order to do software development

And those prices are still subsidized. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc are nowhere close to generating profits.

Why does Mozilla keep diluting their efforts into stuff like AI?

From the outside it looks like they barely have resources to keep Firefox competitive.

If precision is important then non deterministic AI is simply not a good tool.

it’s increasingly difficult to maintain these projects without AI

It's pretty much impossible in a project of this size. IIRC Postgres has over 1M loc.

Well either Claude cannot fix those bugs or it can but the Bun team decided to not fix those bugs on purpose.

Not sure which is worse.

Well, the answer is "Anthropic, with claude code"

Anthropic is not exactly the hallmark of engineering excellence... quite the contrary.

But yes, of course there will be new bugs

Obviously, which is why more thought should have been put into the transition.

Not everyone will want to yolo their production projects into such a massive rewrite overnight.

LTS is more relevant if there was any kind of compatibility that was broken

Do we know 100% for certain that this isn't the case? No.

In fact it would be naive to think a rewrite of this magnitude wouldn't introduce new bugs and/or unexpected changes in behavior.

Nothing to me suggests they’re being careless here.

Plenty of reasons suggest this including the lack of an LTS or any kind of thought put into such a massive transition.

Java, Node, and .NET have LTS versions all of which are free to use.

Or are you expecting open source maintainers to do free work for no particular reason?

Free work? Last I heard Anthropic had acquired Bun.

Who in their right mind would immediately migrate their production apps into a complete re-write of a runtime?

It would be naive to think there aren't new bugs or changes in behavior introduced in 1.4.

Personally I don't care that they used AI to rewrite Bun to Rust. Even if 1.4 is not good enough it will probably get better over time.

What has pushed me back to Node is seeing how amateurish the transition has been handled.

- No LTS support for the Zig version regarding CVEs etc.

- Huge bugs like the 3MB memory leak mentioned in the blog post abandoned in the Zig version to basically force people into the Rust version to fix their apps in production.

- Zero involvement with the Bun community about such a major decision. One day it was "stop the drama I'm just playing with this" and a couple of days later "yolo merged to main".

Jarred basically keeps operating as if he was a lone hacker working on his personal project.

I've been impacted by a couple of bugs in Bun.SQL and lo and behold these were only fixed for 1.4. Presumably Claude could have fixed those in the Zig version but the Bun team decided to not do that.

Furthermore, there's no mention of an LTS plan for the Zig version. It seems that if a CVE is discovered in the future, Bun users will no have no option than to update to the Rust port.

This is not how you run a project that others depend on and enough for me to not touch Bun ever again.

Compiler errors are a better feedback loop than a style guide

So essentially this whole re-write was about making Bun LLM compatible.