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by kouteiheika 40 days ago
> Like seriously, what's the point of explicitly allowing this? Imagine the opposite were true, you weren't allowed to do this - what would they do?

Imagine if they just say "LLMs are banned" then there's a lot of ambiguity. So they specifically outlined that generative uses of LLMs are banned, and that non-generative ones are not banned (i.e. "allowed").

I think it's a poor choice of words on their part, but it makes sense (considering what their policy is). It's more of a "we're not disallowing use in these particular scenarios, so you can still use LLMs for these if you want". Remember: it's a big project, and if they don't explicitly state something then people will ask and waste everyone's time.
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saghm 40 days ago
If anything, it reads to me as a proactive rebuttal of complaints that they don't allow LLMs; they're definitively stating that they do allow using them for very specific purposes.
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bcjdjsndon 39 days ago
Needs to be "solicited" from a senior dev. How many requests for ai code do you think they will be making?
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saghm 39 days ago
I can't find any reference to using LLMs to ask questions in the ways that are cited from the parent comment needing to be solicited.
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bcjdjsndon 39 days ago
Y tho? It's already bad enough a programming language wants to play politics (doesn't matter what my politics are if I want to code in the c "community"), now they're taking purely emotional stances like "AI evil"
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kouteiheika 39 days ago
> now they're taking purely emotional stances like "AI evil"

But they aren't? Nowhere in the document it says this; in fact, it says the opposite - that they don't want to make a moral judgement.

> It's already bad enough a programming language wants to play politics (doesn't matter what my politics are if I want to code in the c "community")

It also doesn't matter what your politics are in the Rust community. My personal politics don't agree with the majority of prominent Rust contributors either, and that's fine. It doesn't (and hasn't) stopped me from being able to use Rust for over a decade now. Ignore politics and just engage on a purely technical level, and you'll be fine.

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bcjdjsndon 39 days ago
> It also doesn't matter what your politics are in the Rust community

Largely true, apart from the trans issue. Refuse to agree a man is a woman because he says it's true, and you're a bigot

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bendmorris 39 days ago
You don't have to agree to treat people with respect. Using someone's preferred pronouns doesn't hurt you.
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griffid 39 days ago
https://fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns

A dissenting view.

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