A draft policy for rust-lang/rust sets boundaries for LLM use, including disclosure rules and bans on AI-created core content.
      • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        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.lolOP
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      1 day ago

      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.orgEnglish
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        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.