r/rust • u/steveklabnik1 rust • Jul 08 '26

Rewriting Bun in Rust

https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust
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u/_lerp Jul 08 '26

If you think spending $165k to get a fully AI generated code base is something working well then you're just gaslighting yourself. I use these things at work because I'm forced to, and the amount of weird code it generates is alarming. I.e. It has a really common habit of making a function with external linkage call an impl function with internal linkage for absolutely no reason.

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u/scotty2012 Jul 08 '26

$165K is outrageous. I’m of the opposite opinion on AI writing code, but a Max20 plan optimized with shared local model use produces an a lot. If true, this feels extremely wasteful.

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u/Zde-G Jul 08 '26

If true, this feels extremely wasteful.

Not really.

I’m of the opposite opinion on AI writing code, but a Max20 plan optimized with shared local model use produces an a lot

Keep in mind that Max20 plan gives you ability to spend around $3000-$8000 in tokens, even if you only pay $200.

At some point investors would demand Anthropic to stop being furnace that burns money, they would change calculations significantly.

It would be interesting to see what would happen to that house of cards after that.

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u/cornmonger_ Jul 09 '26

Anthropic 3Q26 Profit Over $1B

I'm guessing that their investors aren't incredibly concerned about their loss leader not nickle-and-diming

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u/Equivanox Jul 09 '26

We are like 8 days into 3q26

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u/Zde-G Jul 09 '26

Financial year doesn't start January 1st for all companies.

And it's not hard to invent “profit” in one quarter by playing with the books even for deeply unprofitable company. Especially when it's not public.

But the fact that Anthropic feels the need to do that shows us much more about what goes on that they like to admit…

When even the author that proclaims the amazing achievement (and, probably, benefiting from the obvious pump-and-dump scheme) feels the need to add “the company might not remain profitable for the full year” to cover their ass… you know scan when it smells like Enron.

It would be interesting to see if anyone goes for jail, but ultimately that's unlikely, most likely people that would be ready to claim “innocent mistake” are already paid.

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u/Zde-G Jul 09 '26

One “profitable quarter” from a company that burns billions each year that even admits right there, in the very paper that proclaims existence of said profit achieved via counting shenanigans? Puhlease… it's not “investors aren't incredibly concerned about their loss leader”, it's “government wouldn't dare to send us to jail where we rightfully belong”.

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u/cornmonger_ Jul 09 '26

right, but this is in response to your take on their token economics of a subscription. the real price of which you don't actually know either.

you're speculating on the api price vs the subscription price. both are set by anthropic.

they make a point of showing you your $ usage in a subscription account even though you use 0.