Do you think vibe coded rust will rot the quality of language code generally?

6r17 a day ago | parent | next [-]

For AI you definitely need to clean up and I think even targeted learning on some practices would be beneficiary ; for users ; it depends on the people, and I'd argue that vibe-coded rust can be better than just "written-rust" IF the important details and mind of the user are actually focused on what is important ; Eg ; I could vibe-code a lock-free well architect-ed s3 - focus on all the important details that would actually make it high perf - or write some stuff myself 10x slower - which means I will have 10 x less time to work on the important stuff.

However what you asked is wether the vibe coded rust will rot the quality of language ; this is a more difficult to answer to, but I don't think that people who are uninterested in the technics are going to go for rust anyway - from the signals I feedback people are actually not really liking it - they find it too difficult for some reason and prefer to blanket with stuff like C# or python.

Can't explain why.

	▲	miki123211 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I'd argue that vibe-coded rust can be better than just "written-rust I never thought about it this way, but it actually makes sense. It's just like how Rust / Go / Java / C# can sometimes be orders of magnitude faster than C, only because they're more expressive languages. If you have a limited amount of time, it may be possible to write an efficient, optimal and concurrent algorithm in Java, while in C, all you can do is the simplest possible solution. Linked list versus slices (which are much more cache-friendly) is the perfect example here.

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ramon156 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Vibe coded is fine, but keep the comments useful. GPT's are so quick with putting a comment on everything that it kind of enriches your codebase with slop. I wouldn't call it rotting, but definitely redundant

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adastra22 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

These things will be corrected over time.

	▲	yahoozoo a day ago \| parent [-]
		How do you mean?