By reading this thread I've learned that, apparently, you are not allowed to rewrite a large piece …

The top comment in the thread explains it pretty well, so please don't pretend it's anything else. The point is they went from "chillax, it's just an experiment" to "we'll switch languages via a 1M line vibecoded patch" in two days. People that rely on this software are understandably fearful, since there is no way this change has been properly revised and tested. Although perhaps the mistake was relying on such software in the first place... And so are contributors too, which have seen essentially the entire codebase replaced in a week.

The AI polarization is making me sick. Please don't let this style of comment become normalized on HN (and that includes equivalently tribalistic anti-AI comments).

That you're only just "learning" that these things are true is a damning admission. And to fix your bad analogy, it's more like "hey maybe we shouldn't be allowing f1 street races through school zones".

Anyone running bun in production right now has to be sweating lol, this is a ridiculous change for a part of your software stack that really ought to be reliable.

I can't ignore how much this sounds like Stockton Rush. > "Apparently if you build a submersible with carbon fiber you are a witch and need to be burned on a stake. But look we're making reliable trips down to the Titanic with no problems." Realistically, this is a forum of experienced engineers watching a company make some extremely questionable but very flashy engineering decisions. There's going to be a lot of people standing around here going "gee I dunno, that seems questionable". Personally, I think the rewrite will largely work - logically, direct translations from one language to another are pretty well within the realm of the few things LLMs should perform extremely well at. But I also think more information will come out showing this was much more bespoke than just prompting an agent to do the translation. This just feels too much like an ad for Anthropic, I think it's likely t…

Heavy implications on how the future will be formed if things go well with this port. It would prove a lot of people wrong if things go well 3 months down the road.

> By reading this thread I've learned that, apparently, you are not allowed to rewrite a large piece of software backed by a large test suite in another language within two weeks otherwise you are a witch and need to be burned on a stake. You've just learned that you can't do random shit and not get called out? Were you born yesterday?