The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing

Re:The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding ... by bigfishrunning on Sunday April 05, 2026 @09:44AM (#47649378)

But if Bob doesn't know rust syntax and library modules well, how can he be expected to evaluate the output generating Rust code? Bugs can be very subtle and not obvious, and Rust has some constructs that are very uncommon (or don't exist) in other languages.

Human nature says that Bob will skim over and trust the parts that he doesn't understand as long as he gets output that looks like he expects it to look, and that's extremely dangerous.

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Re:The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding ... by ndriscoll on Sunday April 05, 2026 @10:02AM (#47649582)

Then perhaps Bob should have it use functional Scala, where my experience is that if it compiles and looks like what you expect, it's almost certainly correct.

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Re:The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding ... by bigfishrunning on Sunday April 05, 2026 @10:32AM (#47649870)

Sure, but bob is very unlikely to do that unless his AI tool of choice suggests it.

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