> it's a mountain of inscrutable agent output that manages to compile

But is this actually true? They don't say that as far as I can tell, and it also doesn't compile for me nor their own CI it seems.

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sashank_1509 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Oh it doesn’t compile? that’s very revealing

	▲	rvz 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Some people just believe anything said on X these days. No timeline from start to finish, just "trust me bro". If you can't reproduce or compile the experiment then it really doesn't work at all and nothing but a hype piece.

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micimize 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hah I don't know actually! I was assuming it must if they were able to get that screenshot video.

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Snuggly73 5 hours ago | parent [-]

error: could not compile `fastrender` (lib) due to 34 previous errors; 94 warnings emitted

I guess probably at some point, something compiled, but cba to try to find that commit. I guess they should've left it in a better state before doing that blog post.

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jaggederest 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I find it very interesting the degree to which coding agents completely ignore warnings. When I program I generally target warning-free code, and even with significant effort in prompting, I haven't found a model that treats warnings as errors, and they almost all love the "ignore this warning" pragmas or comments over actually fixing them.

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conception 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can use hooks to keep them from being able to do this btw

	▲	jaggederest 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I generally think of needing hooks as being a model training issue - I've had to use them less as the models have gotten smarter, hopefully we'll reach the point where they're a nice bonus instead of needed to prevent pathological model behavior.

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ianbutler 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah I've had problems with this recently. "Oh those are just warnings." Yes but leaving them will make this codebase shit in short time.

I do use AI heavily so I resorted to actually turning on warnings as errors in the rust codebases I work in.

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suriya-ganesh 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

unfortunately this is not the most common practice. I've worked on rust codebases with 10K+ warning. and rust was supposed to help you.

It is also close to impossible run any node ecosystem without getting a wall of warnings.

You are an extreme outlier for putting in the work to fix all warnings

	▲	jaggederest 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		`cargo clippy` is also very happy with my code. I agree and I think it's kind of a tragedy, I think for production work warnings are very important. Certainly, even if you have a large number of warnings and `clippy` issues, that number ideally should go down over time, rather than up.