Off Autopilot #11
Bun rewrite, LLM hype, and opinions on writing code
Weekly roundup of high-signal, human-authored articles about agentic coding:
I love LLMs, I hate hype (~ 4 min read)
“AI is something that’s happening mostly due to Moore’s law and general progress in computing…”
George Hotz (developed first iPhone unlock) · HN discussion
Rewriting Bun in Rust (~ 30 min read)
“One engineer can do a lot more today than a year ago”
Jarred Sumner (creator of Bun) · HN discussion
Control the ideas, not the code (~ 10 min read)
“Focus on controlling the ideas, instead [controlling the code]. Focus on quality, testing, and having an idea of the software you want to ship”
Salvatore Sanfilippo (Creator of Redis) · HN discussion
Why write code in 2026 (~ 7 min read)
“Very annoyed by claude’s habit of trying to memorize random things from my sessions. This is almost never useful”
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