Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust

"I used Claude Code and Codex for the translation. This was human-directed, not autonomous code generation. I decided what to port, in what order, and what the Rust code should look like. It was hundreds of small prompts, steering the agents where things needed to go. After the initial translation, I ran multiple passes of adversarial review, asking different models to analyze the code for mistakes and bad patterns."

There are so many problems with this. Don't get me wrong, I also used AI in the past for coding in languages I'm not experienced in to help me out, but I do it with awareness, try to keep the usage to a minimum, and preferably use more ethical ways to use AI that provide the least benefit to corporations like OpenAI, Anthropic, and co.

But the author doesn't seem to be aware and does not point out the issues with the way he has done it. His only concern seemed to be the code quality, which is a valid concern here, but he didn't seem to have thought much about the waste of resources, copyright infringement, ethical issues, and the support of companies with major illegal practices.

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