Pokemod97Mar 19
Mike Pirnat

Well… FUCK.

https://astral.sh/blog/openai

Astral to join OpenAI

Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team.

Mar 19 at 1:33pmWeb
Show threadAlyssa CoghlanMar 19
@mpirnat Huh, while I was expecting an acquihire at some point, I wasn't expecting *that* acquirer.
Show threadAlyssa CoghlanMar 19
@mpirnat Although, when the bubble bursts, they might still end up where I would have predicted, just with extra steps.
Show threadEric MatthesMar 19

@mpirnat Oh man. The only bright point for me is it's a clear answer to the question, what's going to happen to Astral.

I was really hoping their private package hosting work was going to work for funding the open tools.

Show threadJeff TriplettMar 19

@ehmatthes @mpirnat It also answers the "How will Astral make money?" question that's been thrown around. Both major LLM providers have billions coming in from Claude Code and Codex, which is basically shaping up to be developer tools.

With Bun joining Anthropic last year, I am only surprised it didn't happen sooner. https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic

Bun is joining Anthropic

Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.

Bun
Show threadBrantley HarrisMar 19

@webology @ehmatthes @mpirnat Feels a bit like we are going to see a lot of buying open-source focused companies to control the ecosystem as much as they can.

From a sort of capitalist-zoological perspective, I'm surprised it's taken this long.

Show threadMike PirnatMar 19

@deadwisdom @webology @ehmatthes Mayyyyyybe this will translate into increased financial support for the community, our events, the PSF…?

(Insert cynical laughter and/or Padme-and-Anakin meme here)

Show threadJeff TriplettMar 19

@mpirnat @deadwisdom @ehmatthes One would hope.

Sadly, the foundations shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to funding. I fought that fight for five years on the board, and it fell on deaf ears. I'm not in the mood to expand on that again, but funding for things like PyPI was always an easy sell to businesses, but it was an uphill fight to do anything that would increase funding or donations.

Show threadDavid BeazleyMar 19
@mpirnat Well, have fun with all of that! (waves arms around in all directions).
Show threadPaul ZuradzkiMar 19
@mpirnat wish it were Anthropic had it come down to the two. The most salient ick from my POV is that this comes after OpenAI's opportunistic Pentagon nonsense.
Show threadPaul SomeoneElseMar 19
Are you surprised?
Show threadMike PirnatMar 19
@pkw That they got acquired? Not really. More surprised/disappointed by who did the acquiring.
Show threadGoing T. MaineMar 19
@mpirnat that’s huge. Sucks, 100%, and my initial reaction is that refactoring with AI must be less good than refactoring with structured rules written in Rust.
Show thread/\w*(bim)\w*/gMar 19
@mpirnat big fuck