Balanced
Balanced
Posted Aug 6, 2026 21:21 UTC (Thu) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)In reply to: Balanced by kleptog
Parent article: Nelson: rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
My reading of the policy is as follows:
* If you just want to generate patches for your own private use, do whatever you want.
* If you want to submit patches for inclusion in Rust, they should be written from scratch.
* In either case, you can ask an LLM to generate English that explains how the code works and what needs to be changed, and then follow those instructions to write a patch yourself. That still counts as "written from scratch," because the LLM did not create any of the code.
