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 thread🌸 Ⓐnarkitty lumi-nhac  1d ago
@cwebber ugh, as someone who loves the rust programming language, it's been so depressing to see everything around it progressively get worse

there are many reasons why i love rust:
- having a haskell-like type system is super nice
- mutable xor shared is a very good idea
- the borrow checker is great to work and promotes having simple ownership graphs
- have a crate as the basic compilation unit, rather than a rust file, is a very sane trade-off, and i like it more than having per-file compilation units
- the culture around correctness is very nice
- rustfmt creating a very consistent way to use rust
- embracing inclusivity from the start

there is a reason why i have "rust is my favorite dirty haskell" on my profile

but then, there are a lot of things which are very bad:
- being co-opted by corporations very quickly
- embracing github and discord
- no stance against proprietary software
- no stance against centralization
- crates.io is very centralized and does not play well with distribution package managers
- cargo being the one blessed build tool, rather than embracing variety
- rust applications being annoying to package properly in distributions

seeing people who i used to respect a lot, like fasterthanlime[0][1] and niko matsakis[2][3][4] embracing the slop machines has also been very depressing

it really makes me look more in the direction of embracing c and zig, but those have their own issues

there is a lot to like about zig, and the project itself seems to have a moral compass[5]. the compiler has a stance against llms and moved away from github. sadly the zig ecosystem does not seem to share this stance. for example ghostty[6] embraces it

0: ewie.online/posts/20260214-arborium-is-ai-slopw/
1: github.com/facet-rs/facet/tree/main/.claude
2: github.com/nikomatsakis/zulook
3: github.com/nikomatsakis/retcon/tree/main/.claude
4: github.com/nikomatsakis/dada/tree/main/.claude
5: codeberg.org/ziglang/zig#strict-no-llm-no-ai-policy
6: github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md#ai-is-welcome-here
Arborium is AI slopware and should not be trusted - Evie On-Line

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Show threadmarcusxms1d ago
@lumi @cwebber Did not know that ghostty embraced AI. Just uninstalled it and switched back to Kitty which is great. Also looking to replace keepassxc because of that.
Show thread🌸 Ⓐnarkitty lumi-nhac  
@marcusxms @cwebber even worse is that ghostty has this harmful stance saying genai code is good while genai art is bad

this has potential to split the movement. we should be against all of it
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Show threadmarcusxms1d ago
@lumi @cwebber Agreed. Also glad to see there's a :no_ai: custom emoji, now I just need that on the instance I'm on.
Show thread🌸 Ⓐnarkitty lumi-nhac  1d ago
@marcusxms @cwebber godforsaken.website/@Shrigglepuss/116251985836578143
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Attached: 1 image Oh yeah btw. I made this No AI icon yesterday because I didn't fancy any of the other ones out there when I needed one. It's yours now too 😎

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Show threadprincess pancake ​1d ago
@lumi @marcusxms @cwebber does it? I feel like opposing some of it is still an Overton window shift to better?
Show thread🌸 Ⓐnarkitty lumi-nhac  1d ago
@natty @marcusxms @cwebber opposing some of it is good, but i don't want the focus to go towards a specific usage of genai, while then ignoring the others
Show threadprincess pancake ​1d ago
@lumi @marcusxms @cwebber I think it's a good start to refuse the drive-by garbage people dump with agents

What I think the problem is with the policy is that it claims that the LLM problem is a skill issue and rejects the premise that it is a very flawed technology with serious consequences
Show thread🌸 Ⓐnarkitty lumi-nhac  1d ago
@natty @marcusxms @cwebber it's sadly something you see a lot in tech: ethical, environmental, social and political issues swept under the rug

and then only looking at the technical arguments
Show threadsarah tonin 1d ago

@lumi @cwebber @marcusxms genai code is bad bc code is art

much like some only view paintings and photos as only a way to make a wall less bland, there are people who consider code to be solely practical