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I've been writing rust for maybe 6 years now, and Im very happy i started before the LLMs entered the scene so i had to fight the borrow checker and all that jazz.

Now, I will say im extremely productive with rust and LLMs, and its also comfortable to know that I wont have to rewrite anything to a new language, rust is already the best.

A famous swedish comedian talks about heroin as the "best drug". Where people usually end up and don't want to stop taking.

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I've learned rust when llms appeared and it helped me developed while I learned. My use of llms evolved (https://asfaload.com/blog/ai_use/) and is still evolving: I'm currently at a point where I write most app code myself and use llms to review it. Test and doc I like to delegate to llms, and in that I'm the reviewer. I think I've found the middle point that fits me: llms have an added value, but I think I avoid most of their idiosyncrasies.

AI skynet slop won. Your pre-LLM days shall be honoured in memory.

The current slop-code though ... I don't think many would miss it.

Others "heroin", as analogy, isn't one convincing to get into the slop addict scene really, in my opinion.

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