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REWRITING BUN IN RUST

Bun was facing a large number of bugs that were use-after-free, double-free, or 'forgot to free' in an error path. In safe Rust, these are compiler errors and RAII-like automatic cleanup with Drop, so it made sense to rewrite Bun in Rust. However, such a task would take a small team of engineers a full year to complete. As an experiment, one of Bun's developers tried using Anthropic's new models to rewrite Bun in Rust. This resulted in a runtime that was faster, smaller, and used less memory. This article discusses the lessons and tricks learned during the agentic development process.

META IS TOYING WITH THE IDEA OF SMART GLASSES THAT RECORD EVERYTHING, ALL THE TIME

Meta is testing out a smart glasses prototype with always-on recording to help users remember things about their day. The prototype will not have a light-up LED indicator for when the glasses are recording. There are divergent views within the company about whether the data collected by the glasses should be stored on Meta's servers and used to train AI. Creating the technology will be challenging due to the battery and other issues.

‘HYSTERIA' GRIPS SAN FRANCISCO'S HOUSING MARKET AS AI WEALTH POURS IN

AI companies are distorting San Francisco's housing market. Some homeowners are accepting offers for shares of OpenAI or Anthropic as payments for their homes. Property prices are surging as buyers bet that whoever they overpay today will look cheap tomorrow. Landlords are putting out tenants to sell into the hotter market. Many properties are closing at prices at least $1 million more than their asking price last month.

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