Also “no human wrote any of this code” is not my personal benchmark for a reliable dependency.
I'm going to dare to say that running out of money was often an issue before a big company bought an open source project.
Open source/foreign models are already way cheaper and will work just fine for most use cases but a lot of businesses are already pretty locked in to Claude, and with enterprise costing $240 a year at a 20 seat minimum it's a pretty big investment to make and won't be worth migrating unless the gains are significant.
Is it different from the status quo prior?
I don't think this logically follows. That is, yes being acquired makes one less likely to run out of money, but doesn't necessarily make something safer as a dependency.
Plenty of open source projects have little to no funding and continue on for years with no problems. But being acquired suddenly creates a requirement of return-on-investment. A corporation will happily shut the whole thing down if and when it's decided that they're just not gaining enough value from it.
(There's also the general fact that, a corporate-acquired project is going to first and forement serve the needs of the corporation vs. the community at large - if your use case or edge case doesn't align with the needs of Anthropic then you should probably not hold your breath waiting for the Bun project to address it.)
The recent 1 million line vibe coded PR suggests it is not so reliable as a dependency.
(still reserving judgement on Bun, though — I mean, we'll soon see, one way or the other!)
Wouldn't node be the safest bet as a dependency?