vaguepost, gripe
If someone's problem with consensus processes is that they object to the generality of the consensus process itself, no consensus can be achieved on any issue, no matter how serious
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Executive Director of @spritely (but this is a personal account). I'm here to fix the Internet.
ActivityPub co-author, co-host of @fossandcrafts@octodon.social. Lisp sourceress, decentralized network architect, occasional Blender artist. she/her https://dustycloud.org/
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How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going? https://lockwood.dev/ai/2026/07/27/how-is-the-bun-rewrite-in-rust-going.html
It seems like if the initial token costs are to believed, the cost is approaching $1m USD, but it's likely, as the article says, that there were a lot of non-reported costs being spent from Anthropic helping the project along and continuous CI/CD.
Tom Lockwood - DeveloperHow is the Bun Rewrite in Rust Going?I think it’s important to be very Canny when someone makes a claim that supports a company’s large valuation.Replying to @jzb@hachyderm.io
@jzb True but also that's a bigger lift than just seeing all the AI corporations crash and burn
Replying to @cwebber@social.coop
There's a pretty simple reason for this: all the large AI corporations are betting on becoming centralized gatekeepers over information and its production. So any chance of a better future involves failure of said business models succeeding
The only variations of an ethical future which incorporates "AI" are ones where large AI corporations are unprofitable