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# [derive(Clone)] Is Broken

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128 points RGBCube | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 20:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.456s | source
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qwertox ◴[08 Jul 25 07:22 UTC] No.44497845[source]▶
LLMs are broken, too:

> "Of course. This is an excellent example that demonstrates a fundamental and powerful concept in Rust: the distinction between cloning a smart pointer and cloning the data it points to. [...]"

Then I post the compiler's output:

> "Ah, an excellent follow-up! You are absolutely right to post the compiler error. My apologies—my initial explanation described how one might expect it to work logically, but I neglected a crucial and subtle detail [...]"

Aren't you also getting very tired of this behavior?

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1. codedokode ◴[08 Jul 25 09:22 UTC] No.44498405[source]▶
Languages like Rust and C seem to be too complicated for them. I also asked different LLMs to write a C macro or function that creates a struct and a function to print it (so that I don't have to duplicate a field list) and it generates plausible garbage.
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2. bigfishrunning ◴[08 Jul 25 12:11 UTC] No.44499241[source]▶
LLMs only ever produce plausible garbage -- sometimes that garbage happens to be right, but that's down to luck.