Yoav

The concern isn’t that it will break things, the unit tests pass. The concern is how many hallucinations or misaligned additional code was added. What was previously believed to be a battle tested thing that’s had lots of eyes on it running on my server handling my customer’s data. Is now a black box that presumably no one has really looked at, that’s going to maintain a velocity and practice of no one looking at. What’s in the blackbox handling my customer’s data? How can Bun continue to be core infrastructure going forward? I wish it was at least kept as canary for long enough for the community to plausibly look at what was generated. Instead of the next version of bun being this new unseen thing.

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When are we going to stop pretending oneshotting bun’s rewrite was a good idea?

Such a delusional take. You are already part of the class that doesn't have to pay for tokens. This isn't why you are doing what you are doing and most people know that. We will live in the world where tokens won't be accessible. They already aren't. There is a whole world out there that has no idea how much AI can benefit them because they can't afford even a $20 subscription. Let's at least not pretend that this is done for the greater good or as a study.

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

Imagine deploying 1,000,000 lines of code written in 6 days by AI that no human has ever read, let alone reviewed, to production where your customer’s data is. Imagine

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