slopc: The curse Rust maintainers never anticipated.
tldr ; githoob/slopc So. Recently, I watched "No Boilerplate"'s video on rust's macros and gave those a try after years of ignoring it: thinking it wouldn't help my productivity that much. nah uh !...

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tldr ; githoob/slopc So. Recently, I watched "No Boilerplate"'s video on rust's macros and gave those a try after years of ignoring it: thinking it wouldn't help my productivity that much. nah uh ! felt like discovering your car has heated seat after 2 years on a lease. But then the intrusive thoughts came in: What if those heated seats were LLM driven, on fire, and the car is now driving itself into oncoming traffic ? The voices in my head drove me to draft up some cursed proc-macro that would make my coworkers (me and my 2 cats) loose all the respect and faith they have for my technical skills. #[slop] is an attempt to see how far I could push codegen and how flexible the rust compiler could be.. and it's limitations. This also made me realize that proc-macros could be a legitimate supply chain attack vector. But I'm not well versed on how one could mitigate this. The boring stuff: #[slop] replaces todo!() with LLM-generated code at compile time using the comments, fn signature and p