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The original was posted on /r/rust by /u/MasteredConduct on 2026-04-23 13:43:10+00:00.

Just wanted to vent a bit, a year ago I made it onto a Rust only team in FAANG, great salary, great coworkers, and best of all I finally was getting to write Rust on the clock. Fast forward to today, we were told that all new code must be written by LLMs next year and we should be code reviewers only. I'm already almost there. Instead of coding I write specifications, instead of debugging the LLM debugs, instead of code reviewing the LLM does the majority of the analysis.

It feels like Rust came too late, a great language that we barely got to experience before being swallowed in the post coding age. I'm still trying to find ways to write Rust by hand here and there, but like the chainsaw to the axe, or the auto to the horse, you don't get the same sense of productivity out of doing something "the old fashioned way". I feel robbed.