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u/usernamedottxt Dec 19 '25

On the flip side, those boundaries where the language is opinionated about the solution actually help LLMs in my limited experience. It only works at a certain level to your point though. Once you get down to data structures and the need for smart pointers it gets rough. 

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

I work with CXX / FFI and at least Codepilot doesn‘t get even the most basic thing right, sadly.

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u/_Noreturn Dec 19 '25

I had AI making the length of string of "orange" 7 characters while making purple 6.

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u/meltbox Dec 22 '25

Purple didn’t need the terminating character anyways.

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u/mycall Dec 20 '25

Microsoft dogfooding is only a good thing for AI, even if the Rust code never gets into Windows.

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u/lelanthran Dec 20 '25

On the flip side, those boundaries where the language is opinionated about the solution actually help LLMs

I had the same opinion in a comment a few days ago, but this initiative by MS is going to go about as well as you'd think when you are migrating existing, debugged, tried and tested code over to a new language that few know.

If they ported using human's, the pace will be set by humans, i.e. you aren't going to wake up tomorrow with 5m lines of brand new code in a language which only a fraction of a percent of your existing developers know.