Myers slams Anthropic Bun rewrite narrative

Hot take: Anthropic's 'speed of AI' rewrite of Bun to Rust was a calculated PR stunt to hype its AI capabilities and justify a trillion-dollar valuation, rather than a purely technical decision driven by Zig's limitations.

* **Marketing over Engineering:** Anthropic used the Bun rewrite to showcase its "Fable" model and support its narrative that coding is going away, ignoring that the rewrite resulted in unsafe Rust and didn't catch memory bugs.

* **The Style Guide Alternative:** Bun dismissed using a style guide (like TigerBeetle's TigerStyle) to solve memory bugs, despite claiming that agentic code review—which is itself style enforcement—successfully guided their migration.

* **Cognitive Dissonance on Readability:** Bun's blog post complained about minor syntax ergonomics in Zig (such as lacking operator overloading for pointer wrappers), which is hypocritical for a project claiming that developers no longer write the code themselves.

* **The Hype Bubble:** Overselling AI code generation creates an unmaintainable deluge of low-effort code contributions, demonstrating that coding agents cannot replace sound architecture and design principles.