Comment by nrhrjrjrjtntbt
8 days ago
I love HN because HN comments have talked about this a fair bit already. I think on the recent Erdos problem submission.
I like the idea that languages even like Rust and Haskell may be more accessible. Learn them of course but LLM can steer you out of getting stuck.
Or it will lead you to unsafe workarounds when you get stuck
Always a risk.
Some students whose work I had to fix (pre AI), was crashing a lot all over the place, due to !'s instead of ?'s followed by guard let … {} and if let … {}
Forums used to be full of ppl using ON ERROR RESUME NEXT in VB
The idea that LLMs are steering anything correctly with Rust reference management is hilarious to me, but only due to my experiences.
Id definitely use LLMs to troubleshoot but not blindly vibecode.