One thing I appreciate about Rust is that the developers seem to move thoughtfully and apply a fair bit of rigor. It may appear they move slowly at times, but I like their approach.

[+] abc@suppo.fi -20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Blanket AI bans are becoming the new slop.

[–] lavember@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

is this a blanket ai ban though?

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

From the policy in the PR:

The policy's guidelines are roughly as follows:

It's fine to use LLMs to answer questions, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest, review. But not to create.

LLMs work best when used as a tool to write better, not faster.

We carve out a space for "experimentation" to inform future revisions to this policy.

So... No, it isn't.

Note that there are times when using a LLM to create code is allowed. Reading the doc explains the nuance.

[–] cm0002@lemy.lol 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Agreed, but hopefully they're being used more for "Let's pause for now while we figure out a good way to filter out true AI-Code-Kiddies slop from actual programmers using it as a proper tool" rather than perm bans

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago

Actual programmers using it as a proper tool should produce output indistinguishable from actual programmers not using it at all. That there even is (often) a visible distinction is a big part of the problem.

Notably, it even explicitly says in the proposal that it shouldn't require any policing. Instead, obvious cases are more important.

[–] abc@suppo.fi 0 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that totally makes sense.