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neilv · 2025-05-17T16:05:03 1747497903

Downvoters: The whole point of Rust is avoiding defects due to programmer mistakes. Why would you use Rust, but then outsource the programming to a known-bad programmer/plagiarizer.

setr · 2025-05-17T17:31:39 1747503099

Isn’t that exactly why

If rust avoids defects due to programmer mistakes, then throwing a shitty programmer at it is functionally safe (or safer than otherwise) because their shitty code won’t compile. So worst case is they don’t do any harm, and best case is free cheap labor

neilv · 2025-05-17T18:03:14 1747504994

Rust only prevents/discourages some classes of programmer mistakes.

But presumably your you want to reduce all of the mistakes.

Rust won't prevent/discourage a lot of the other classes of mistake that a bad programmer is creating.

setr · 2025-05-17T23:18:16 1747523896

Sure but generally speaking, the safer the language/model/api, the more likely you can get away with AI generated code.

Rust having more powerful modeling tools than the usual language sales it more viable to use crappier programmers, not less.

Obviously if your goal is perfection, then only hire programmers capable of writing perfection. If you’re making the trade-off of cheaper/junior resources and putting more effort into testing/api design/type design/code review to help defend against the inevitable errors, then your genai code fits neatly into the same equation