23 points nocobot | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source

I tend to be sceptical when it comes to LLM based coding tools but many people seem to be raving about huge productivity gains which I wouldn’t mind as well.

However when trying cc it left me vey disappointed. For context I’m working on a relatively greenfield rust project and gave it tasks that I would consider appropriate for a junior level colleague like:

- change the return type of a trait and all it’s impls

- refactor duplicate code into a helper function

- replace some of our code with an external crate

it didn’t get any of them correct and took a very long time. Am I using the tool wrong?

How are you using cc or other agentic tools?

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johnecheck ◴[13 Jul 25 12:17 UTC] No.44549839[source]▶

>>44548554 (OP) #

I've been using Claude Code to decent results. Its not 10xing my productivity but it can do tasks like that. I haven't done much to configure it, I just regularly clear the context and @reference the relevant files.

What language are you using?

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1. runjake ◴[13 Jul 25 19:47 UTC] No.44553053[source]▶

>>44549839 #

The original post says Rust.

> I’m working on a relatively greenfield rust project

I haven't had good luck using LLMs with Rust, but it may just be me.

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