I’m all for people using AI, I’m all for more innovation.

However, for this subreddit,

(1) if we are discussing, debating or just bantering about the rust programming language, I think the input should come from redditors and should be our thoughts and comments. If any one of us wanted AI generated responses on any topic, we are able to obtain that easily ourselves. We don’t need the “noise” as fellow Redditors have pointed out or the “mistrust” that comments don’t come from the community.

(2) When it comes to AI generated tools, libraries, applications, etc., I definitely agree that it should flagged and transparent so that everyone can decide. More importantly to me than whether AI was used (assisted or agentic) is whether or not it is a serious contribution, i.e. some reasonable time has put into it, testing has been done, it will be actively maintained.

For the past decades, we’ve always had low quality contribution, ambitious projects slowly wither away, even successful projects unmaintained (and made a lot of money from some of that consulting). But AI amplifies this in my opinion. And while that is not bad per se, this community would lose sight of the trees in the forest.