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Re:Corroded: Illegal Rust by nacozarina on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:13PM (#46484824)
type safety was always a guardrail for the human not the machine.

humans aren’t reading code, so no need for it, ai can write everything in ASM & C, keep everything fast and economical.

Re:Corroded: Illegal Rust by justaboutanyone on Sunday January 04, 2026 @12:38AM (#46485268)
People are still going to read the PR regardless of how it was created.
Re:Corroded: Illegal Rust by oofbey on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:05AM (#46485419)
In some environments this is a hard requirement, and will be hard to break. Places where the code is know to have big impact / blast radius and can’t be wrong.

In other environments (most startups founded in the last six months) no human is ever reading any of the code. It’s kinda terrifying but I think it’s where we are going. And here I would argue having strict compilers is way more important.

Re:Corroded: Illegal Rust by tormeh on Sunday January 04, 2026 @04:03AM (#46486283)
That's fascinating and insane. Rust will help, but I can't see that working well. In my experience LLMs (even Claude) need quite a bit of handholding.
Re:Corroded: Illegal Rust by justaboutanyone on Saturday January 17, 2026 @11:09PM (#46664711)
Perhaps people will move to stricter programming languages try to counter the slop issues
Re:Corroded: Illegal Rust by JoshTriplett on Sunday January 04, 2026 @12:58AM (#46485381)
> humans aren’t reading code, so no need for it, ai can write everything in ASM & C, keep everything fast and economical.

This is a great plan; I would encourage everyone using AI to follow this strategy. The resulting smoking craters will have many job opportunities for human-written code that works.

Re:Corroded: Illegal Rust by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:16AM (#46485472)
Surely AI also needs guardrails?
Re:Corroded: Illegal Rust by Rexxar on Sunday January 04, 2026 @09:20AM (#46488192)
AI needs heavy fortifications, moats and watchtowers around it.
Re:Corroded: Illegal Rust by sunshowers on Sunday January 04, 2026 @03:10AM (#46485985)
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