Comment by kingcauchy

5 hours ago

Interesting to hear! We maintain the project Antfly (entirely zig) and have been nervous about bringing issues to the zig folks or asking questions because of our ai usage.

We’re quite knowledgeable and thoughtful folks fwiw

I think I’ve seen you are a core team member or contributor? I remember your tag?

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alexrp  4 hours ago

We simply ask that Zig bug reports be written by humans, for humans. Whether you use LLMs on your project is immaterial to us.

Yes, I'm a core team member.

  • kingcauchy  4 hours ago

    Thanks for the clarification here!

    So for instance because of the size of our codebase our project has pushed Zig to some of the edges, specifically we end up hitting a bug when using llvm and zig on arm64 (Mac and Linux) where it seems to be caused by some configuration Zig passes through to LLVM. I’ve used codex and claude to help me diagnose and find the bug (we use nix’s glibc zig to circumvent the problem now). I now understand the root cause but am not sure what the proper fix would be. But I’ve not known whether or not even raising the issue would break the terms of contributing? Would raising the issue break the implicit agreement?