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nmg9 minutes ago
> ## Other organizations

> These are organized along a spectrum of AI friendliness, where top is least friendly, and bottom is most friendly.

This section is an extremely useful reference

spprashantabout 1 hour ago
Github just won't respond at all.
7e16 minutes ago
The poor Rust team is outgunned: they are getting PRs of great complexity. They can't even tell if the code is good or not. LLMs can generate really good code and they can generate very poor code. Most of the code I've seen is actually pretty good, but featureful and complex, and humans don't have the brainpower to understand it all.

The Rust team needs LLMs to adjudicate LLM-generated code properly, but they can't afford them (there is no money in OSS) and they are afraid of being put out of a job. Thus this Luddite policy.

I expect soon we will see Rust forks with a pro-LLM policy, and if those forks have AI agents reviewing PRs, the main Rust repo. will soon be irrelevant and all development of any note will happen on the forks, as they accelerate in quality and features exponentially. The Rust team will never be able to catch up to them.

giancarlostoro14 minutes ago
The term scope creep comes to mind. Programming languages do not need to grow exponentially 24/7, its okay to let it grow slowly and stay mature and secure. If Rust were too bleeding edge, the safety promises would corrode over time. I think a better use of some of those PRs is to focus on crates as proof of concepts for things that could benefit Rust if it were included either in the standard library, or just available as a crate you can use for programmer ergonomic reasons.
ares62312 minutes ago
Would love to see that happen, personally. All this power being held back by red tape. We need to unleash the beast.

What do you think is stopping anyone from starting a fork right now? Is it a licensing issue?

ares62330 minutes ago
Oh no where is Bun gonna be ported to next?