RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch

Absolutely love how readable the entire project is

Never knew Rust could be that readable. Makes me think other Rust engineers are stuck in a masochistic ego driven contest, which would explain everything else I've encountered about the Rust community and recruiting on that side.

Not sure what you’re alluding to but that’s just ordinary Rust without performance or async IO concerns.

It is very procedural/object oriented. This is not considered good Rust practice. Iterators make it more functional, which is better, more succinct that is, and enums more algebraic. But it's totally fine for a thought experiment.

It's AI generated

How do you know? The over-commenting?

I know because this is how an AI generated project looks. Clearly AI generated README, "clean" code, the way files are named, etc.

To me it looks like LLM generated README, but not necessarily the source (or at least not all of it).

Or there's been a cleaning pass done over it.

The repeated Impls are strange.

I think pretty clearly the source is also at least partially generated. None the less, just a README like that already sends a strong signal to stop looking and not trust anything written there.

Not sure myself. Commit messages look pretty human. But the emojis in readme and comments like "// Re-export key structs for easier access", "# Add any test-specific dependencies here if needed" are sus indeed.

Most Rust code looks like this - only generic library code goes crazy with all the generics and lifetimes, due to the need to avoid unnecessary mallocs and also provide a flexible API to users.

But most people aren't writing libraries.

Where? Don't see any on latest main (685467e).

`llm.rs` has many `impl LLM` blocks