Comment by josephg

> I believe that Rust is the language benefiting the most from agentic AI

Except in my experience, chatgpt and claude both struggle to write rust code that compiles correctly. Chatgpt is pretty good at complex tasks in typescript like "Write a simple snake game using (web framework x). It should have features X and Y". Its can be surprisingly good at some complex problems like that.

If you try the same in rust, it often fails. I've also had plenty of situations where I've had some complex borrowing error in rust code, and chatgpt just can't figure it out. It goes in loops. "Oh I see the problem. Sure, this should fix it ..." except the "fixed code" fails in just the same way.

I'm not sure why. Maybe there's just not enough rust code in the training set for chatgpt to figure it out. But rust is definitely a weakness of the current generation of models.