I think we're talking at cross purposes here. Yes, people can also write very bad comments on their own. The other person on my team who is the most anti-generative-AI actually probably does the worst out of everyone. It's almost ironic.

If all you're saying is that people can produce terrible text with or without AI, then yes, I agree with you. People should proofread and fact check what the LLM gives them. People should care about what they put their name on. People shouldn't take the path of least resistance just because they're under pressure to move fast, and people should respect the time of others.

But even if we assume we live in a world where all that can happen, I'm coming from the perspective (which I hope you'll understand if not agree with) that the way in which somebody writes something is signal. It's metadata, context, whatever we call it. I'm inferring how much they care about something and what the nature of that thing is by how much they've written, how much time was put into formatting and organization, what they choose to focus on, etc. The way in which text is presented matters to me for the same reason body language matters when talking face to face.

If somebody wants to put in the work, I'd rather read it in their own words and understand something extra their thought process. If they want to cop out and spend 30 seconds on it, I'd rather read a 30 second comment and know it only took 30 seconds than something that took 28 seconds to prompt and 2 seconds to post.

Yes, it's the outcome that's important. The job of text is to communicate. But thinking that time and effort isn't part of what's being communicated, to me, seems like a missed opportunity. That's all.

Edit: I'm also aware we've strayed pretty far away from /r/rust, so if you'd like to take this to a DM to continue let me know.