> Like seriously, what's the point of explicitly allowing this?

I would have LOVED if the university course I took last winter had this. I had to take a very paranoid attitude to what was allowed.

What they're trying to avoid is a lot of unnecessary conflict with zealous anti-AI people calling for your exclusion for admitting to doing these things. There are people who would ban this too.

So then the Rust maintainers are going to give you an F on your report card?