Post #4040979
2026-07-23 16:00 UTC
I've seen several people express dislike towards Rust (the project or the ecosystem) due to being opposed to the use of LLMs and a perception that Rust is used by LLM users.
It feels deeply unfair having spent the last decade trying to make the Rust compiler talk to people as humans, having that work be incidentally useful to LLMs, and that somehow reflecting poorly on the project.
It's like if someone looked at the textual TTS optimized output we've been working on to improve accessibility, and criticized it because it could make it slightly easier on LLMs too.
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@ekuber@hachyderm.io 2026-07-23 16:33
FWIW, no one owes me anything, and me seeing the equivalent of two people shooting the shit at a bar between each other should be none of my business. But social media *isn't* a bar, and one can have a much wider audience than one thought, and reach people you wouldn't say that to their faces. Specially when the bar has 10 thousand of your closest friends, your pithy comment will escape the room.
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@emilyskidsister@hachyderm.io 2026-07-23 16:48
@ekuber@hachyderm.io software should be bad so robots can’t use it is sure a take