r/Zig

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u/Aransentin•

A little sticky since very few people apparently read the rules, and I need to have some text to point to when moderating:

If your project was generated by an LLM, do not share it here.

LLM-written third party libraries or tools serve no purpose. Anyone can tell Claude to do something. Sharing something it spat out for you adds no extra value for anyone. Worse, you are likely never going to update it again. It's just worthless unmaintained dross clogging up GitHub and wasting everyone’s time.

This includes LLM writing in READMEs and comments; mostly because it's a basically certain signal that the rest of the code is trash, and so is a very good heuristic for me to use. If you need

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