> absolute position of hating something such as AI and progress
Most takes I've seen are far more nuanced.
Key is that 'progress' has a positive connotation. It is different from change. Mere change - such as new inventions - may not necessarily be aligned with progress in a field, society, etc.
Change may be inevitable, but it's up to us humans to sculpt it into progress.
But I am talking about Zig and others who have the same stance. Zig has a very strict No LLM / AI contribution policy and it likely got in the way of the Bun maintainers at Anthropic. From [0]
>> No LLMs for issues.
>> No LLMs for patches / pull requests.
>> No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation.
They don't hate it. There's no antagonism that I know of there. I believe they want it to be fully human-authored and want low-hanging fruit items to be good onboarding for developers, not targeted by AI contributions. Simon Willison wrote a good blog post on it: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/
how do you square that with the "no LLM translators" rule? i agree i dont think they hate LLMs but that one seems unreasonable and odd, and makes me wonder if its ideological after all
Most takes I've seen are far more nuanced.
Key is that 'progress' has a positive connotation. It is different from change. Mere change - such as new inventions - may not necessarily be aligned with progress in a field, society, etc.
Change may be inevitable, but it's up to us humans to sculpt it into progress.