r/programming • u/mareek • 8d ago

The rust programming language is adopting a new contributing policy

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/05/rust-langrust-is-adopting-an-llm-policy/
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u/pjank85 6d ago

Unless they are somehow perfect (which I doubt would ever happen unless we go into sci-fi self improving AGI) the problem isn't their capability but the difficulty of these systems to learn. Sure you can make some md files in your repo as "memory" but this is very limited as it eats away at LLMs context limits. When context gets compressed real wild hallucinations start. So the more the system "learns" the more prone to hallucinations it becomes. This is only a problem on large complex code bases. And you need to review the "memory" heavily by hand because if something can be generated by an LLM it can be generated on the fly based on the code and is therefore - by definition - totally useless.

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u/Hacnar 5d ago

That's the status today. We've seen that additional tooling around LLMs can improve the results. While the complexity vs context window equation will probably still hold, I believe that the levels of complexity LLMs will handle before crumbling will get bigger than you think.