Bun's Creator Rewrites Project from Zig to Rust Using AI Agents, Fixing 16,000 Errors
thursdai_pod · x · 2026-07-23
Bun's creator Jarred Sumner conducted a wild experiment: using AI agents to rewrite the Bun project from Zig to Rust, fixing an impressive 16,000 compiler errors in the process.
Developer @nisten breaks down the agentic setup, the scaling strategies, and what actually happens when you throw massive amounts of tokens at a real-world, large-scale codebase. This provides a highly valuable case study for leveraging AI in major engineering refactors.
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