Balanced
Balanced
Posted Aug 6, 2026 15:08 UTC (Thu) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844)In reply to: Balanced by mb
Parent article: Nelson: rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
>>It's fine to use LLMs to answer questions, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest, review. But not to create.
Pre-arranged, non-critical, high-quality, well-tested, and well-reviewed code changes that are originally created by an LLM are allowed, with disclosure.
>Of course the policy leaves much room for interpretation, but I do not read it this way In my view the process I described it not to *create*. It is *suggest*. I as a human take this AI suggestion and then create the artifact.
I don't think the policy leaves any room for interpretation, it contains a subsection specifically clarifying that the process you're describing falls under "originally created by an LLM" and is subject to the disclosure restrictions of the policy:
The meaning of “originally created by an LLM”
This document uses the phrase “originally created by an LLM” to mean “text that was generated by an LLM (and then possibly edited by a human)”. No amount of editing can change how it was originally created; the origin sets the initial style, and that style is very hard to change once it’s set.
For more background about analogous reasoning, see “What Colour are your bits?”.
This policy makes no distinction between LLM output that comes from a chat interface and output that comes from editor auto-completion. In most cases the output is “trivial” (see above under ⚠️), but regardless, it is not treated specially by this policy.