If the bun team is around I would be interested to get their opinion on this: in the old time migrating a 1M codebase from one language to another meant you would pretty much become an expert in the target language. The output of the work is team experience/knowledge + the actual rewrite. With that Bun rewrite do you feel that the Bun team learned something other than “Claude can rewrite a very large codebase in no time”, which is impressive in itself. Is the output only the rewrite, or did you learn something along the way? And how do you feel about your answer? Not a snark question, like a lot of others I’m myself trying to understand how I feel about how our profession is/has been changing.
I used to think software was inherently valuable.
Then I decided that software is of limited value without a team to maintain it. Not necessarily because they fix it, but because they represent a bunch of humans who collectively understand it and therefore give it more possibilities.
And now this. I'm not sure what to make of it.
Same