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Section named "The Interview Question That Started Everything" doesn't contain the interview question.

• hyperbrainer 1y ago
  That's the first thing on the page. > Interviewer: “What happens if you allocate memory with C’s malloc and try to free it with Rust’s dealloc, if you get a pointer to the memory from C?” > Me: “If we do it via FFI then there’s a possibility the program may continue working (because the underlying structs share the same memory layout? right? …right?)”
  • sesm 1y ago
    That's fair. Personally, I've skipped that entire pre-section thinking it's a long quote from some book.
• PoignardAzur 1y ago
  It is, but yeah, the entire article's formatting is pretty weird.
  • jeroenhd 1y ago
    The entire blog post feels formatted like AI output to me. Repeated checklists with restated points, tables and full blocks of code spread across the page in a very specific way. I don't know if the author used AI to write this, but if they didn't, this is the person AI agents decided to copy the writing style of. Edit: Reddit thread somewhere in the comments here to a post from the author pretty much confirmed my suspicions, this article is heavily AI generated and plain wrong in several cases. A good reminder not to use AI slop to learn new topics, because LLMs bullshit half the time and you need to know what you're doing to spot the lies.