Comment by fnordpiglet

FWIW with proper MDC/ rules I’ve found LLM programming agents excellent at rust. There’s a lot of complex and tedious minutiae in rust that I know but forget to apply everywhere it’s helpful while a SOTA LLM agent does well, especially with proper rule guidance to remember to use it.

Generally though I find LLMs have a pretty rapidly diminishing return on what you can expect out of them. They’re like a 3-5 year senior programmer that has really learned their domain well, but doesn’t have the judgement of a principal engineer. You get to a point where you need to reach in and right things and really pay attention, and at that point the diminishing returns set it rapidly and you’re better off just doing the rest yourself. Refactors and stuff can be delegated but that’s about it.

I find this true regardless of the language. None the less, I’ve been able to improve my overall velocity dramatically completing several projects in the last few months in the span of one typically. If tooling improves I hope to continue that but I’m already getting close to the limit of how fast I can conceive of useful creative things.