> Not everyone wants to become a compiler engineer. Some people encounter a bug while trying to build their own software and would simply like to fix it. That's a perfectly legitimate contribution whether you intend to work on Zig for the next ten years or never touch it again.

I'm on the record as not a fan of Zig's management or choices, but this is among the many statements I disagree with in this article. The Zig team is writing (among other things) a compiler. If you don't want to become a compiler engineer, the maintainers are perfectly within their rights to decline to review your code or work with you further.

It's the other side of this that I take issue with. There are plenty of people who do want to become compiler engineers who see LLMs as a way of accelerating understanding by way of having a very well-informed (if not sometimes incorrect) chatbot be able to answer your questions and indulge your curiosity. IMO, it's these people that are the most let down by Zig's LLM policy.