Writing for Agents: Ugly But Information-Dense Rust Code
zack_overflow · x · 2026-09-01
The author presents a snippet of Rust code that may look aesthetically unpleasing to humans but is extremely information-dense. This style allows AI agents to reason about types locally without grepping or reading other files. It highlights a shift in coding paradigms where code is written to be optimized for machine agents rather than just human readability.
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