Replying to Avatar Mike Dilger ☑️

I decided to see if AI could help me with a rust programming issue. I started by looking at Github CoPilot, and that lead me to a few IDEs and after reviewing for rust support I went with JetBrains RustRover.

Well I sicked the A.I. on the problem with "fix with AI". And after 20 seconds or so it changed my code. It applied a naive solution I had already tried. I compiled and got the next error. I went to that error and selected "Fix with AI". Again another naive solution that didn't work. I did this about 5 or 6 times and it never got my code to compile.

I guess I was hoping for too much.
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namosca 7mo ago

According to a friend of mine, the solution is to:

1) Create a README file for the AI agent telling it to run the compiler and all automated tests, and try another solution if compiler or tests fail. Do not claim to have solved a problem before this happens.

This works well for him.

He uses Claude code

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