Is Claude Code bottlenecked by performance?
I think a JS runtime is fine because the ecosystem of tools is very large and plugins are easy.
Is Claude Code bottlenecked by performance?
I think a JS runtime is fine because the ecosystem of tools is very large and plugins are easy.
People widely report very high memory and CPU usage.
Not all of the memory usage is the fault of Bun/JS. Some of it is likely memory leaks (holding on to data it shouldn't). However, some of the blame does go to using JS. In Rust you can tightly pack your data if you want to, but in JS you can't have nested structs for example. Every object referencing another object is two separate chunks of memory, each with a header, and a pointer from one object to the other. GCs also use more memory. The overhead adds up.
Building a CLI program in JS is a bad choice, and nobody should be defending this decision. Especially since Claude Code is very much able to write Rust code, and they've shown it can port code. Just port Claude Code to Rust directly.
Why is ecosystem of tools and plugins a bottle neck when they literally own Claude models and as per their boss, code is so cheap that anything us just an English sentence away?
I knew this was going to be the first reply.
The answer is because you still need at least one human to develop and test any tool, integration, feature.
Why? Use agent bruh. Even the bun rewrite post said that agents do writing testing everything!!!
Unless AI overlords lied and we do need humans
They had a human oversee the bun rewrite, didn't they?
that's the hypocrisy I was pointing out. Lol
For their work they extensively test using humans with deep expertise
But while marketing they say just vibe code bruh
And here they can't even rewrite CC in rust? Why not! Use 1000000 agents!! Write it in platform specific binary! SAAS is dead, that's what he claimed. So what's stopping him from writing the harness in Rust or C than ReactJS?
What hypocrisy? Anthropic never said you don't need a human anymore.
I think we are not living in the same universe if you claim this. And I can't speak with someone who doesn't live in the same universe
Show me where Anthropic claims you don't need any humans anymore to build working, production ready software.
> The "General Labor Substitute": He rejects the idea that his employment forecasts are "doom marketing". Instead, he asserts that AI will act as a general substitute for human labor, noting that most software engineering could be entirely automated within 1 to 2 years
When someone says all Software engg could be automated within 1yr they don't mean 'oh use our agents and keep human in loop'
They mean 'AI superior than humans fire all humans and all SWEs will be jobless'
I am not going to reply to you going forwards as I can't speak with someone who lives in a different universe
Have you watched the video where that was said, as opposed to just reading interpretations of it from people with their own assumptions?
https://youtu.be/02YLwsCKUww?is=UsJrcLRgdSUd38Jt
Here's a transcript: https://gist.github.com/simonw/0050b4ce40439b97598d4ffdb273d...
I summarised the transcript using LLM just like our AI overlords intended.
News flash: most of software engineering is already automated. When was the last time you wrote code?
They did not claim there is no human involved.
it does seem to be very much bottlenecked by performance, yes. very slow to start up, for example.