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Anthropic is massively bigger than a studio, Zig is massively smaller than Unity, and it wasn’t a quiet switch, it was a huge publicity event. It’s more like the #1 movie of the year being “The Profound Joy of Finally Leaving Unity”. Sometimes things are big enough to warrant a response.

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It was a pull request and a blog post which HN et al. collectively foamed at the mouth about. You’re acting like Anthropic sunk millions into a marketing campaign.

For what we know, probably around $200,000 to run the rewrite and rewiew it, + whatever was involved in writing the blog post and advertise it.

Anthropic produced the tokens. They don’t have pay themselves retail API rates for them.

The cost was only provided as an honest estimate of what it would have cost someone else at time of writing, which I thought was fair.

The number is peanuts relative to the cost of engineers working on the project. I find it odd that so many people think this cost number is some sort of smoking gun.

At the same time, Anthropic is still running at a loss, so should this actually be 300k? 500k?

Anyway, the exact number doesn't really matter in the context of my comment anyway (which was meant to facetiously note that the marketing campaign includes the Bun rewrite)

Well if the whole thing is a marketing ploy and it did cost them millions...

The entire country is watching companies like Anthropic, openAi, etc.. right now... A pull request and blog post is a big deal.

People were for a few weeks commenting on why Jarred didn't write that Rust blog post.

Here are the comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251340

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241734

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240996

Now he published it; it's a hit piece. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

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