Christine Lemmer-Webber6d 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

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Show threadDuchamp Pérez6d ago
@cwebber Well, rust was hard to learn to begin with, so one less reason to study it. What is Zig's take on LLMs?
Show threaddizzy

@hugoestr @cwebber

I will say that, 1.) Zig has a fucking phenomenal [no llm policy](https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/#strict-no-llm-no-ai-policy), but also 2.) "Jack Huey on behalf of Vision Doc group" (the writer of this article) is not "rust". Rust is very diverse and while i do wish they'd take a stronger stance at a central level on these sorts of issues, they are also a much larger project than zig. all i mean to say by that is: i wouldn't take this as "The Rust Project has gone full LLM pilled" so much as "a guy who works in the Vision Doc Group made an unfortunate mistake that puts the rest of the project under a rather negative light".*

* (this all coming from someone who writes all their personal projects in Rust, so maybe i'm huffing on the copium here, but...)

[Edit: more info on zig's policies here, in this wonderful blog post from kelly himself: https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/]

Code of Conduct ⚡ Zig Programming Language

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Show threadDuchamp Pérez5d ago
@dizzy @cwebber Awesome context! Thanks! Another reason to keep rust in the maybe pile!