AI systems that act on vibes instead of hard rules produce confident, wrong outputs. This issue of Changelog's newsletter leads with that structural problem, and it is the most important framing for anyone building or deploying AI in production today.

The issue also covers Anthropic's acquisition of the creators of Bun, the JavaScript runtime built for speed. That move signals where Anthropic thinks the real leverage is: not just models, but the infrastructure developers run against them. Separately, Jonah Glover attempted to get Claude to recreate Space Jam's original 1996 website and failed, which is a more revealing stress test than most benchmarks. Google revived something it previously killed, and Bazzite is called out as a Linux distribution purpose-built for gaming.

Read the full newsletter for the hard-rules argument. The Bun acquisition angle alone has legs that the summary does not fully pull on.

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