[reutinger]

Hi Steve- honored to see you here! (I’m practically using your book to reverse-engineer what the AI wrote ).

To be precise with my terminology: I showed the forensic expert the terminal history and compiler output in my VS Code/Cursor logs.

Because I was 'vibe coding' with LLMs, I had a long scrollback of cargo build failing repeatedly with ownership/borrow errors. 'Chris' (the forensic expert) reviewed that timestamped history to verify that I was genuinely struggling to compile a harmless display driver in a hotel room that morning, rather than deploying a pre-compiled malicious payload.

His logic was essentially: 'A terrorist brings a clean binary. A developer brings a terminal full of red text.' The broken build state was my alibi.

[steveklabnik]

Ah, that makes sense, I was just confused because I don't think of the borrow checker as producing logs, but the terminal output is a great thing to show someone, yeah.