Alistair Smith
I work at Anthropic on Bun and Claude Code.
Before that, I built a cloud platform and an AI research app on early language models. I've worked on software with 100M+ monthly downloads and lots of open source. I'm interested in interpreters, language design, and excellent products. It's nice to meet you.
Currently in San Francisco, CA.
writing
- Fixing a WebKit bug to see if promises are made of train tracks · Nov 2026
- Single file apps with Gleam and Bun · Aug 2026
- Ambient Declarations · May 2025
- A strict TSConfig · Sept 2022
- Avoiding homework with code (and getting caught) · Jan 2022
- The 0kb Next.js blog · Jan 2022
- Serverless Discord OAuth with Next.js · Jan 2022