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Bun has been acquired by Anthropic (bun.com)
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Biggest WTF news I've read today. I'm not a web dev so this doesn't affect me, but this is bizarre.

We get a closer first look at what's around the corner for AI coding tools, and make Bun better for it

This incredibly popular tool is now going to merge with an AI company and shift gears to be turned into some forced AI hype machine. Yipee! Exactly what all the devs were hoping for! /s

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[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not overly surprising.

Google and Salesforce have been "developing" new features and products this way for at least the last 13 years?

  1. Find promising small business/startup
  2. Buy it with your war chest money
  3. Force them to integrate with your systems and live inside your walled garden.
[–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm not a business expert, so i want to ask:
Can you "reject" being bought?

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Yes but... not really.

If you're amazingly talented and spend 10 years of your life building something amazing but have no money, when someone offers you millions you're just gonna take it.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Amazon.com acquired parent Quidsi, Inc. for $545 million on November 8, 2010. Prior to Amazon's purchase, Amazon sold diapers at steep losses in order to undercut Diapers.com and drive down the purchase price of the company.

No. Not if they really want to buy you.

Source

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago

the walmart tactic, they learned from the og AMAZON, aka WM.

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago

The whole Amazon diapers is insane.
The burgeoning monopoly was being noticed as early as 2011. I know this because it is why the CEO of one chain here planned out and started offering grocery deliveries.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, technically yes.

But mega corpos have so much money to throw at you that at one point, it's hard to say no and very few people can refuse.

It is generational wealth that is being offered to the shareholders. I know I would fold.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yes, so long as you don't them putting pressure on your suppliers and helping your competitors, I guess

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago

Or just building a straight close of your idea and crushing you. Happened to my startup.

[–] jonathan@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

It depends on how much of the company you gave away when you took on investment. If you no longer have the controlling share you can be overruled.