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exfalso | 8 months ago

Exact same experience. I have no clue what other people are doing. I was hunting for use cases where it could be used and it kept not working. I don't get it.

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energy123|8 months ago

Is it only Rust that you've had this experience with or is it a general thing?

Keats|8 months ago

I'm not sure if it's Rust related. It manages to write the Rust code just fine, it's just that it doesn't seem to

- think of everything that is needed for a feature (fixable via planning at the beginning)

- actually follow that plan correctly

I just tried with a slightly big refactor to see if some changes would improve performance. I had it write the full plan and baseline benchmarks to disk, then let it go in yolo mode. When it was done it only implemented something like half of the planning phases and was saying the results look good despite all the benchmarks having regressed.

exfalso|8 months ago

Also tried it with Python. The autocomplete there was ok-ish(although to me the "wait for it -> review suggested code" cycle is a bit too slow), but getting it to code even standalone well-defined functions was a clear failure. I spent more time trying to fix prompts than it took to write the functions in the first place.

andyferris|8 months ago

I had been trying with Rust, but after this article I think I might change tack and attempt a project in Go...