It's a total tangent but AI being so good at developing rust means that my first impression of seeing a rust project has totally changed.

4 or 5 years ago if I had to weigh up two options and one was written in rust it was almost a sure thing that the program was snappy, fast, reliable and that the author was competant.

Now it's a sure fire sign that the project was probably vibe coded. Not saying it can't still be good, I just have a different first impression now

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Animats 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> Now it's a sure fire sign that the project was probably vibe coded.

Groan. That's sad.

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jason_oster 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Compare to what happened to Python. That will cheer you up!

	▲	jaggederest an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Hey, at least python is now extremely consistent: it's an unpleasant tarpit regardless of whether it's human or AI generated. Ruby, too, rip my native programming language. I remember in the pre-AI era I was doing a quick sample contract employment with a company that had >200 columns in their user table and was manually enumerating them in every query, multiple times. They were using SELECT $1,$2,...$184,$185 from tablename with an enormous list of columns referenced only by offset. That's not python's fault, but I've weirdly seen it more often in python codebases.