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This is pretty contrary to my experience, for whatever it's worth. I wonder what the differences are.
by steveklabnik 2y ago
This is pretty contrary to my experience, for whatever it's worth. I wonder what the differences are.
- _bin_ 2y agoWell to start, you're really, really good at rust :) I'm not sure. I've begun advocating for people, when they write blogposts etc., to dump and attach their conversations (unless precluded by security/privacy) so those of us who seem to get worse results can see if there are "tricks" or styles to it we miss. If you're amenable to it, this would be doubly helpful from someone who knows the language so extremely well!
- steveklabnik 2y agoI’ll think about it, and thanks for the kind words.
- bsaul 2y agosenior dev, rust very recent onboarder : my personal experience is that LLM are super helpful at the very very beginning, because they show you the very common rust pattern, and help with the verbose syntax by reducing the amount of typing ( which isn't usually a problem, but in rust it can be). Then once you start reaching for a bit more complex problems (like ffi, or building your own lib), llms are actually making waste time spitting nonsense. However, once your patterns are back on track, and you start to know a bit better what you're doing, you can easily dismiss those bad advices, and immediately give the llm hints that will make them useful again. At least that's my experience.