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

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?)”

That's fair. Personally, I've skipped that entire pre-section thinking it's a long quote from some book.

It is, but yeah, the entire article's formatting is pretty weird.

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.

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