charlie Marsh: rewrites beat external deps in the AI era
mohamedmansour · x · 2026-10-26
Asked why Bun ports code instead of using external crates, charlie Marsh (uv/rye author) says rewrites over external deps is now 'indisputably true' in the AI era — but for new projects you still must choose between human judgment as a bottleneck or giving up control of the details.
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