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AlexErrantyesterday at 8:58 PM5 repliesview on HN

https://github.com/bendlang/bend

...did they just squash the repo to 1 commit for v2.0.4? Why? Yall should know that in this age of AI trust is the real currency... and nuking your history is one hell of a way to raise eyebrows.

> Enjoy bug-free, fast vibe-coded apps! Hints: ask it to write laws for whatever should never break, and to parallelize everything you want running fast. Bend is young: if anything goes wrong, ask it to open an issue.

Emphasis mine. I don't want to be snarky but like... come on.


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randomblock1yesterday at 9:24 PM

Multiple times, even. Still no real reason why. https://github.com/bendlang/bend/activity?ref=main

One time they force pushed and erased everything except a 2-line README... on purpose.

Pre-obliteration version: https://github.com/bendlang/bend/tree/814453670d0e0d6777c131...

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icrbowyesterday at 9:18 PM

Taelin's X is a war story of how the codexes and fables tried to bend it. If you're afraid then LLMs were used in there - fear no more - they were.

thechaoyesterday at 9:23 PM

> curl -fsSL https://bend-lang.com/install.sh | sh

Hmmm... needs `sudo`.

Banditozyesterday at 9:15 PM

GitHub shows 44 contributors. 41 distinct users have merged pull requests.

...so now their work has been reduced to nothing?

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LightMachineyesterday at 9:20 PM

yes, there's a lot of personal info and AI slop in the commit history.

is this a problem to you? why

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