Nice! I hope they follow through.
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.
Blanket AI bans are becoming the new slop.
is this a blanket ai ban though?
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.
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
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.
Yeah, that totally makes sense.