One reason I love writing production code in Ur/Web is that LLMs are incapable of synthesising something even remotely resembling it. Keeps me on my toes.

I think this is a great policy by the Zig team.

I don't have an opinion about Zig AI policy for contributions. Their project, their policies. Fine for me.

However, I wanted to give Zig a try in an agentic coding scenario. For tasks that would take a few seconds when choosing Python, Java, or JavaScript as a target language, it would take tens of minutes and waste millions of tokens before producing anything.

Almost any model gets stuck trying to figure out the correct syntax and correct libraries for a specific Zig version, fighting with compiling and figuring out function call parameters, frequently taking it wrong and going on side quests for things that should just work.

I guess the relative lack of resources and the language instability don't play well for models that try to generate Zig code. Using specific tools like zig-mcp helps only a bit.

Until LLM support for Zig improves (one needs to spend significant resources for that to happen), LLM-generated Zig code won't be good enough for either Zig programmers or Zig contributors.

Honestly, that doesn't sound too bad. It does not say you can't use LLMs, it just doesn't let LLMs be the author of a commit. Meaning, if you as a developer make yourself responsible for what the LLM wrote, go ahead. But be ready to answer the technical questions, be ready to get grilled in the code review, and be called if you get a CVE on that part of the code...

Loris Cro banned me from his Zig forum because I disagreed with/corrected something he wrote.

I was also blocked from the Zig github repository, after being a frequent contributor to issue discussions, for reasons unknown (I was never informed, I just found out when I could no longer put a thumbs up on a comment).

AI must die - don't let Skynet 7.0 win!!!

(Ok ok I think we lost the fight already. I see soooooo many people using AI tools on github in the last ~2 weeks alone, claude in particular literally infiltrated everything there.)

People shouldn't have to justify not putting up with bullshit. It is a sensible default.

Go zig! I don't use the language but I totally respect where they're coming from and their mission and ethics.

For those who are pissed because a large OSS project isn't accepting LLM generated slop: Fuck off!

No human should trust any bullshit made by bullshit machine.

Very convenient of Mr. Willison to omit the fact that Bun's upstream changes are total garbage and would not be upstreamed regardless of any policies, omitting LLM generated code or not, since they are, as a zig core team member articulated in a classier way, shite.