Christine Lemmer-Webber1d ago

The Rust project puts out an article about how they're listening to their community https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/20/rust-challenges/

Except it turns out that article was drafted by an LLM https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1rz15t3/what_we_heard_about_rusts_challenges_and_how_we/obiwu24/

They claim nearly every line was rewritten by a human but I'm not sure how you could send a worse signal to your community about how much you aren't listening than having an LLM draft a post saying we're really listening, honest

What we heard about Rust's challenges, and how we can address them | Rust Blog

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Show threadMacCruiskeen
@cwebber How will managers and bureaucrats of the future learn to write bland corporate pablum if they let the machine do it for them?
Mar 21 at 12:12pmWeb
Show threadD21d ago

@maccruiskeen @cwebber you mock, but as a ‘get to the point’ nerd who also loves witty terms and clever turns of phrase, That Bland Corporate Pablum Shit is **hard**.

Like a couple years getting good at MS Access, never have I put so much effort into mastering something I never want to do again.