Comment by 827a
2 days ago
AI is extremely good at rewriting existing code, and rewriting code is a classic engineering productivity trap. That's a tale as old as time; "we need to rewrite the api in Go" said every new midlevel engineering hire ever. Of course, 9 times out of 10 we don't do it, because the unpredictable costs always outweigh the benefit, and in Jarred's case we're starting to see these costs surface. They aren't technical, they're political; broad swaths of the community have lost faith in him and the Bun project.
Write in C, snapshot to memory safe production Rust that had been verified and differential tested to within an inch of its life. This is a hard reality. Ports will become cheap. Disposable. The vuln finding capabilities are changing everything and not a lot of solutions are out there yet. We can automate the ports and get them efficient.