I fully AI-driven rewrite of a massive codebase from one language to another within a reasonable release-cycle has never been done before.
There was a lot of sentiment around the lines of:
- Bun is done for, it's all slop now
- there's no way a fully AI-written codebase can work
- Jarred is an idiot for trusting AI to rewrite the whole thing
- they're never going to release this, there's going to be a billion of bugs
This release proved all of this wrong. It also serves as a great advertisement of how capable Anthropic models and harness are to enable this.