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2 points by fragmede | karma 18795 | avg karma 1.82 2023-09-29 06:39:54 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments

Nerdsniped by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37694270, I decided to see if I could write a simple daemon that parses my comment page, and dings if I got a reply.

I don't know rust at all, so this was a totally blind stab at writing rust code.

ChatGPT transcript: https://chat.openai.com/share/646e8440-f566-45ea-9c31-2c43d8...



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I'm floored by how easy this was to write, given that I don't know rust, and some of the minutiae would have taken me hours to suss out on my own. I still don't know how to write Rust, but I still successfully wrote a program in it!

Nice! I’ve been meaning to start learning rust

After having ChatGPT write this, I wouldn't say I understand rust, because I can't explain some of the hairier bits of how to access strings, but now that I have the code to look at, I can certainly try and understand it (or have ChatGPT explain it to me).

Binary release...?

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