For an entity like Anthropic that's not even the cost of a single developer for a year. It's closer to what they pay a chef on premises.
That the showstopper for a better Claude agent is that they'd need to pay $168k or event $1M or even $10M in costs, can't be used as an excuse.
The argument I responded to argued that cost might be the prohibiting factor. I'm saying that for them, the costs mentioned are negligible.
What I argued was that you seemed to have been arguing an extreme point i.e. LLMs can one-shot stuff in any PL and that it does not matter in what PL they'd rewrite Bun.
If I misunderstood -- my apologies.
What I said is, those AI companies push LLMs as the replacement of programmers, that can do everything code-wise, say their programmers "don't write code anymore" etc.
So how come they can't have the LLM write something better than "react for cli" for their flagship agent product?
Claude Code is likely not well-specified and it's a product of rapid iteration and now nobody really knows how the whole thing works. LLMs don't do well when requirements are muddy.