this is purely anectodal, but i’ve tried getting coding help from gen ai a few times and it was never helpful
the last time i tried was particularly ridiculous: i was looking for z-combinator implementations in rust on google and gemini gave me an implementation suggestion. for those who don’t know, the z-combinator is an eager variant of the y-combinator and the point of both of those is allowing you to implement recursion without using recursion directly
this is purely anectodal, but i’ve tried getting coding help from gen ai a few times and it was never helpful
the last time i tried was particularly ridiculous: i was looking for z-combinator implementations in rust on google and gemini gave me an implementation suggestion. for those who don’t know, the z-combinator is an eager variant of the y-combinator and the point of both of those is allowing you to implement recursion without using recursion directly
the code generated by gemini used recursion
and it didn’t even compile