Rust also has its own original sin. Slow compilation and bloated target/ directories are symptoms. The disease is a development process so slow that obvious improvements spend years waiting for permission to exist. People were proposing solutions like these before GPT-3.5 even existed. Cargo still can’t garbage-collect stale build artifacts. The solution is straightforward: track when artifacts are last used, then delete the ones nobody needs. This is engineering, not a research problem. And yet it still hasn’t shipped. Cranelift could make debug builds much faster. It’s still a nightly side quest. Cargo Script could let an agent run a one-off Rust program, pull in dependencies, and test an idea quickly. It’s been sitting on nightly for years. Every feature gets buried under fear of breaking something. Editions come every three years, and most changes are deliberately kept shallow. Rust has turned backward compatibility from a strength into a veto on progress. Agents don’t need a language dumbed down for them. Every agent is a coding genius. Give it a steep learning curve and it’ll climb it. What it can’t do is make a slow toolchain iterate faster. Rust has caught the C++ disease: so terrified of breaking the past that it can’t move fast enough to build the future. That’s Rust’s real original sin. In the Agent era, maybe the better choice is to move fast and make breaking changes across the ecosystem, so we can rethink these problems from first principles and reach better solutions sooner.