Why Did Anthropic Buy Bun, an Open-Source Software?

What is bun you might say? Yeah, that was my question. Do you know mpm? Yeah, right. Download downloads packages. It organizes it's a package manager, but it can also run uh tasks. It can run test tasks and run, you know, development tasks and stuff like that. So, it not only manages all of the libraries, but actually can run your your code. So, I do npmi for install. That will install packages. Yeah. So is that packages that my project needs? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So if you want to add 3JS to a project, you do mpm install or npmi uh 3JS or whatever the package is. You can go on you can go on npm and just look at all of the packages up there and then I do npm run build or npm rundev and it will actually run after run that project. Yeah. So it's a task runner as well. So bun is basically the same. They've made some notable improvements on the speed and efficiency of a lot of the uh uh uh system processes that make all this happen much faster than node. And there's been a few attempts at this sort of stuff as well. Um PNPM is another one. Um yarn is another one. So bun is just another contender in all this. They are they they made some you know good headway and what they want to do is actually bring bun into claw code because cord code already uses bun they already use bun to wrap everything and this and that that they've just absorbed the team which is relatively small forgotten the name of the chap uh Jared Sumner and they're hopefully going to make some notable improvements probably starting with coiled code but maybe in some of their other website efforts because obviously These guys know software and and not necessarily front-end software, but certainly the architecture of and the technologies involved in building all this to a to a deep level to be able to make some really good speed improvements to to something that was already pretty fast, you know. So the worry here is that the Bun is open source that [music] next year we'll see some sort of deprecation of it that we'll lose a lot of what made Bun great create the typical acquisition worry um because this just happens time and time again you know um any updates on GAP with web flow are they still pretty true to the Gap yeah they are like open source And they are free like Gab [snorts] was not free before but now they are free to everybody. Yeah. Yeah. So there's there is still time you know but you know we but they promised I believe they promised to stay. But they promised but they promised [laughter] you can't do a take it back. They they do actually sometimes they they promise and you know they take it back or whatever they do whatever they they want to do with [snorts] We talked about this with affinity, right? Affinity and uh their software, but yeah, we'll see about Bun become staying open source or not. What is interesting to me is that it's a relatively small team. I don't know how many people we are talking, but I believe it's like four or five. Um maybe we could look this up. And it's an open-source software. And the company like who bought them Anthropic they've been saying that they are going to kill software engineering because AI will just do it for them. But if we look at not what they say but what where their money is going to we see that they are buying an opensource product. they could just you know click copy it duplicate it but they didn't obviously because software engineering apparently I mean admitted by them it is more than just you know AI generating some code for you and it's not the AI is not like even close to that like far from it so they are paying literally millions we don't know how much but it's for sure in the millions if not closer to hundreds um for something open source. They could actually they could like duplicate it. They could fork it and do whatever they want with it, but no, they they want the the engineering team behind it who can like continue building it and integrate it in what they want and things like this. So yeah, um I think it I still think it's a great time to become a software engineer because it's just so fun to learn. If if your goal is to to learn, it is like amazing like instead of going into Stack Overflow, you know, people can be really mean there, right? You you you know that people are very mean on Stack Overflow. you can just ask AI and learn and just continue and uh you see it's not gone like I I don't see it that way. I see this is part of a larger conversation on my show Command AI which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter.