alt Hacker News>Reminder that the Bun's Zig-to-Rust rewrite took 11 days with dozens of agents working 24/7 and the author put the cost they'd pay (if they had to pay) at about $168k.
For an entity like Anthropic that's not even the cost of a single developer for a year. It's closer to what they pay a chef on premises.
That the showstopper for a better Claude agent is that they'd need to pay $168k or event $1M or even $10M in costs, can't be used as an excuse.
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hluska • last Sunday at 8:29 PM
Do you know their entire roadmap? If not, maybe different people prioritize things differently when they see their full strategic position.
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pdimitar • last Sunday at 7:12 PM
I don't work for them and I don't know their priorities. I can only speculate they're not okay with it but no idea why exactly.
Lets see what happens in the future. From my experience cost of maintaining this amount of shitty code explodes pretty quickly. We will see in a few years if SW development in all phases using agents is that much automated and easy as people now predict.