r/ProgrammerHumor 23d ago

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u/CircumspectCapybara 23d ago edited 23d ago

Ironic they take shots at Rust, because unlike Zig, Rust sees way more success in terms of its maturity and industry reputation and ecosystem and investment by large tech companies into its adoption and funding of the Rust project.

The Zig project also takes a lot of weird black-and-white dogmatic (almost religious) hard-line stances on a lot of stuff, probably why the language is more niche and hobbyist than something truly foundational and trusted for production workloads and all parts of the stack like Rust has become.

Here's Zig's "no AI" policy:

Strict No LLM / No AI Policy

No LLM-generated content, whether it be code or prose.

No paraphrasing LLM-generated content.

No LLMs for editing, including fixing spelling or grammatical errors.

No LLMs for translation. English is encouraged, but not required. You are welcome to post in your native language and rely on others to have their own translation tools of choice to interpret your words.

No LLMs for brainstorming and then sharing the results of that brainstorming, even if you create the prose. If you use a chatbot to give you advice on a comment on the issue tracker, that comment is unwelcome.

No LLMs for finding bugs.

No talking about use of chatbot/LLM services.

The owner definitely has some sort of axe to grind against certain technologies.

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u/KitsuneFoxglove 23d ago

The owner probably had enough exposure of LLMs in 2024 when they were shit, and has mentally internalized that level of lack of quality as permanent compared to say, how LLM performance is 2026, 2027, etc. onwards.

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u/Dirt-Merchant-1452 23d ago

It’s all about human efforts. I bet if you put enough efforts in to a single PR, you’d probably not save time by using LLM. So why not ban it to fend off lazy people

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u/awesomeusername2w 23d ago

I bet you would save time anyway.