[umvi]

OP said "The next generation of developers will, for better or worse, grow up using AI assistance to write their code, but none of them will ever become a Zig contributor."

You rebutted with (paraphrasing) "no, you can't build compilers with LLMs because LLMs don't invent new things"

I used a lot of words to demonstrate that you can invent new things with LLMs, including compilers, as long as it's a human + LLM iterative loop and not an unsupervised LLM running in a vacuum.

[krupan]

To me it sounds like you did all the actual hard work of the inventing. If an LLM brainstormed some ideas and you validated which ones worked and implemented the idea and fully grokked the code then the zig developers probably wouldn't ever know that an LLM was involved and you'd be fine to contribute.