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As expected [0] [1], this was a clear advertisement / marketing opportunity of Anthropic's Fable model on rewriting Bun (which powers Claude Code) from Zig into Rust.

Something that would have taken hundreds of developers now took 1 developer with Fable.

Now Claude, rewrite Claude Code from TypeScript to Rust. Make absolutely zero mistakes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073893

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240829

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EDIT: the parent has effectively deleted their original comment

> There are a lot of ways to do a terrible job of this. For example, prompting Claude "Rewrite Bun in Rust. Don't make any mistakes." and then praying it would work is not what I did.

> EDIT: the parent has effectively deleted their original comment

Not really and we both know that is not true.

The last line of the comment was the joke. [0] It is clear that you didn't get it and many others did. That is OK.

Heavens forbid anyone here is allowed to make any jokes on this site.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839063

1 Developer with a 200k budget for tools.