This is a weird pattern accross OpenAI/Anthropic to buy startups building better toolings. I don't really see the value for OAI/Anthropic, but it's nice to know that uv (+ ty and many others) and Bun will stay maintained!
0x3f2026-03-19 22:33
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> it's nice to know that uv (+ ty and many others) and Bun will stay maintained! Depends if you think the bubble is going to pop, I suppose. In some sense, independence was insulation.
synthc2026-03-19 22:33
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`uv agent` and `bun agent` in 3....2.....1....
LoganDark2026-03-19 22:36
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I'm not so sure. I sort of wish they hadn't been acquired because these sort of acquihires usually result in stifling the competition while the incumbent stagnates. It definitely is an acquihire given OpenAI explicitly states they'll be joining the Codex team and only that their existing open-source projects will remain "maintained".
applfanboysbgon2026-03-19 22:37
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Company that repeatedly tells you software developers are obsoleted by their product buys more software developers instead of using said product to create software. Hmm.
KolmogorovComp2026-03-19 22:37
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It's a good news to me considering their open-source nature. If/when they go downhill there will be still the option to fork, and the previous work will still have been funded. Now for those wondering who would fork and maintain it for free, that is more of a critic of FOSS in general.
huksley2026-03-19 22:38
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UV_DISABLE_AGENT=1 UV_DISABLE_AI_HINTS=1 uv add
avaer2026-03-19 22:44
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As good as the team is, that's not what they're buying in this case.
jpalomaki2026-03-19 22:46
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Somebody took a deeper look at Claude Code and claims to find evidence of Anthropic's PaaS offering [1]. There's certainly money to be made by offering a nice platform where "citizen developers" can push their code. From Astral the (fast) linter and type checker are pretty useful companions for agentic development. [1] https://x.com/AprilNEA/status/2034209430158619084
DoctorDabadedoo2026-03-19 22:48
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Good that they got some money and a longer runaway, but I have my doubts the product will improve rather than be smothered to death. Embrace, extend, extinguish. Time will tell.
NiloCK2026-03-19 22:48
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A concern: More and more plainly, OpenAI and Anthropic are making plays to own (and lease) the "means of production" in software. OK - I'm a pretty happy renter right now. As they gobble up previously open software stacks, how viable is it that these stacks remain open? It seems perfectly sensible to me that these providers and their users alike have an interest in further centralizing the dev lifecycle - eg, if Claude-Code or Codex are interfaces to cloud devenvs, then the models can get faster feedback cycles against build / test / etc tooling. But when the tooling authors are employees of one provider or another, you can bet that those providers will be at least a few versions ahead of the public releases of those build tools, and will enjoy local economies of scale in their pipelines that may not be public at all.
rTX5CMRXIfFG2026-03-19 22:55
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If it ever goes bad, well I hope that that’s an impetus for new open source projects to be started — and with improvements over and lessons learned from incumbent technologies, right at the v1 of said projects.
jjice2026-03-19 22:56
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Not who I would've liked to acquire Astral. As long as OpenAI doesn't force bad decisions on to Astral too hard, I'm very happy for the Astral team. They've been making some of the best Python tooling that has made the ecosystem so much better IME.
AlexCoventry2026-03-19 22:58
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They probably have retention issues, due to selling out to fascism recently. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/openai-sam-altman-pentagon-d... I know I stopped using them.
japhyr2026-03-19 23:01
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This has me thinking about VS Code and VS Codium. I've used VS Code for a while now, but recently grew annoyed at the increasingly prevalent prompts to subscribe to various Microsoft AI tools. I know you can make them go away, but if you bounce between different systems, and particularly deal with installing VS Code on a regular basis, it becomes annoying. I started using VS Codium, and it feels like using VS Code before the AI hype era. I wonder if we're going to see a commercial version of uv bloated with the things OpenAI wants us all to use, and a community version that's more like the uv we're using right now.
smallpipe2026-03-19 23:06
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If Codex’s core quality is anything to go by, it’s time to create a community fork of UV
itissid2026-03-19 23:11
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Isn't this something to do with their paid pyx(as opposed to ty/ruff etc) thingy?
christina972026-03-19 23:12
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I mean they are “startups” on the way to mega-companies. They need internal tooling to match.
cube22222026-03-19 23:19
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Honestly, for now they seem to be buying companies built around Open Source projects which otherwise didn't really have a good story to pay for their development long-term anyway. And it seems like the primary reason is just expertise and tooling for building their CLI tools. As long as they keep the original projects maintained and those aren't just acqui-hires, I think this is almost as good as we can hope for. (thinking mainly about Bun here as the other one)
volkercraig2026-03-19 23:24
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It's not any different from the launch of the FSF. There's a simple solution. If you don't want your lunch eaten by a private equity firm, make sure whatever tool you use is GPL licensed.
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