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

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Show threadsarah tonin 1d ago
@cwebber oh good to know the project lead is just as rotten as the community
Show threadSharp Cheddar Goblin1d ago
@SRAZKVT I've bounced off of learning Rust from a technical standpoint a few times now, what's the deal with the community? Maybe I'll have to write it off entirely.
Show threadsarah tonin 1d ago
@SharpCheddarGoblin personal experiences https://srazkvt.codeberg.page/posts/2025-12-18-stop-telling-me-to-use-rust.html
Sarah's website - Stop telling me to use rust.

Show threadprincess pancake ​1d ago
@SRAZKVT @SharpCheddarGoblin I see you repeatedly self-insert into conversations about Rust to express your desire for it to fade into obscurity again, isn't that kinda self-harm? ​​
Show threadsarah tonin 1d ago
@natty @SharpCheddarGoblin not my fault it pops up into my feed
Show threadprincess pancake ​1d ago
@SRAZKVT @SharpCheddarGoblin it's not your personal obligation to argue with every post that pops up tho
Show threadsarah tonin 1d ago

@natty unfortunately, i view reliable and resilient architecture as more important of a target than my own mental health

my mental health being better only benefits me and close ones, proper architecture and sharing knowledge of how we can make things better benefits everyone. pretty easy choice there

Show threadprincess pancake ​1d ago
@SRAZKVT there's your problem

to make reliable and resilient architectures you first need functional mental health

"Sacrificing" by burning out is not heroism, it's depressing to see
Show threadLisPi

@natty @SRAZKVT

to make reliable and resilient architectures you first need functional mental health

Eh not really. There are multiple examples of experts with failing mental health (or health in general) maintaining their skill up to the end.

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